[Groxx]

I would actually recommend against Rails, unless you have a fair amount of programming experience already. I really like it, and Ruby is a wonderful language, but it's extraordinarily complex. It'll get you from zero to something very very quickly, but the "magic" behind the scenes will inevitably bite you, and the solutions can be difficult to grasp. It's also a very quickly changing framework, so you will have to watch out if you change versions, even fairly minor ones.

If you take your time with it, it can work, and there are a fair number of very good guides for it. But be willing to take the time you need to really understand what's going on.