[bfioca]

You can do smart URLs without mod_rewrite. Ever hear of rails?

[agentbleu]

is that something you put your curtains on?

[agentbleu]

anyway forgive me but I was under the impression RoR had performance issues?

[bfioca]

Saying language X has performance issues makes no sense. Saying implementation X has performance issues does. It's not the language, it's the application/developer/configuration.

[maxwell]

RoR isn't a language.