[pale_rider]

WordPress sites get hacked because the owner fails to update the platform or install 3rd party scripts/plugins without any sort of logical research.

This can be said about any platform, regardless of the language.

[alanh]

> WordPress sites get hacked because the owner fails to update the platform

Why are the updates even necessary? If you are still on Rails 2.3.8, you aren’t getting hacked just because you didn’t move to Rails 3 yet. But the situation with Wordpress & its ecosystem seems waaay less secure by default.

> This can be said about any platform, regardless of the language.

Not to the same degree, no sir.

[pale_rider]

Last time I checked Rails was not a content management system.

A fair comparison would be Drupal, Joomla, vBullentin - anything of that nature - which all regularly release updates.

[alanh]

Those are all PHP based and would seem to prove the point.