According to Computerworld correspondent Mark Pascall, the open source web development software Ruby on Rails is set to explode in popularity. Mark puts it down to two basic features:
Convention over Configuration (CoC), which creates a default towards normal (conventional) things, and Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) which saves heaps of time. The developer we use also refers to Ruby as “self healing”.
Anyway, it looks like a big leap forward by the open source community. Isn’t amazing what you can get free?