Best of both worlds
Over the last two years many excellent and free tools have become available, for instance Wordpress (with which I write this blog), Drupal and the whole Ruby on Rails thing.
I am sure there is a lot to be gained from mixing and matching these frameworks. This morning I was mulling over how to build a web application that needed a CMS component. I already have Drupal running on my server and am constantly pleased with how it helps me get jobs done. So I got to wondering how to mix it with a Ruby web application.
This is a round about way of saying, let each tool do what its good at, Drupal for CMS, RoR for the web application stuff, and blend them with CSS and Apache to look like the same web web site.
Hopefully the next post will show an example of a working Drupal/RoR hybrid.