[HacktionLab] Rails girls

[Mick - Clearerchannel]

On 5/30/2013 11:49 AM, Mike Harris wrote:
> cool.  am not a massive fan of Rails, but that's from being from a
> non-RAD background.  These web tools can mean that people develop web
> apps quickly that aren't actually that well designed or programmed, or
> easy to maintain.   It's a similar situation with PHP in general and
> with Drupal I think.

I guess using these kinds of frameworks have advantages and disadvantages.

Disadvantages, you have to keep on top of security upgrades, you need to 
watch out for conflicting code contributed by different authors, you 
need to buy in to a methodology.
But you get the advantages of being part of a community effort so you 
don't have to write your own code for every single thing your web app 
does and you take advantage of the fact that there is a community 
testing for security flaws as well.

But if you wanted to, what are are good tools for building web apps from 
scratch?

nice one
Mick