It was my intention to upgrade my weblog software at the same time as my server upgrade. I’ve been experimenting with Ruby on Rails and I’m pretty impressed, but not enough to give up on ASP.NET. My plan was to replace Textpattern with Typo (which is based on RoR(Ruby on Rails)) as it provided a relatively easy upgrade path from TP, but after spending some time customising it, I decided I was changing my site to suit the app. So it’s back to the drawing board.
RoR is nice, but I don’t really see a lot of extra benefit for me. I’ve also been alarmed by the reports of Google’s Web Accelerator breaking RoR apps. OK, so it’s not just a RoR problem but it doesn’t inspire confidence that the people who designed RoR got caught out by it…
Google’s web accelerator breaks most web applications. The helpful guys at 37signals came up with a quick, clean workaround thanks to the flexibility of Rails: http://david.backpackit.com/pub/37983