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by vinceguidry 3387 days ago
Rails works great for that.

Rails works great for every web task except the very big and the very small. Very small being anything you'd want to put on a Raspberry Pi.

The learning curve is reasonable, and can be made easier if you get the basics of both Ruby and MVC down by using a simpler Ruby framework like Sinatra to build out a few toy apps before jumping into Rails. Once you feel like you need more out of a framework than Sinatra can give, it's time to switch to Rails.

Ruby and the web go together like Captain and Coke.

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Haha okay thanks for your advice. I'll definitely look into Ruby before building anything, then. Sounds like Sinatra might be better for me to start with if it's the simpler of the two.