[tlrobinson]

Rails, Django, CakePHP, Merb... they're all the same. Rails just "inspired" a new generation of web application frameworks.

It wouldn't surprise me if most of Heroku's technology translated to other stacks easily.

[vlad]

I don't think Django was inspired by Rails, but I could be wrong. CakePHP definitely was. In fact, I learned CakePHP by watching Ruby on Rails screencasts because I couldn't get RoR installed on a VPS way back when, while CakePHP installed effortlessly, yet didn't have many good tutorials.

[rms]

Rails was released a year before Django, I think they win the prize as the most influential modern web framework.

[vlad]

Which means what? I'm pretty sure they didn't know or care about one another when they were used privately. I'm not arguing which one was more influential.