The last week of looking at RoR:
- Does all the plumbing if you follow the convention
- Amazing how little code you need to write
- The important stuff for CRUD apps is all there – validators, db relationships, CRUD functionality
- The ORM works
- Fast to develop!
In summary this look like a wonderful technology for putting together CRUD based business apps fast.
Shared hosting seems to be harder than .NET / PHP, however heroku.com is a great free resource.
Commercially speaking I think it would work very well in an enterprise where there is a need to develop apps fast (when isn’t there!) that do not require huge performance (I would argue that most apps I’ve worked on would be well suited in RoR).