# Professional opinions on development frameworks

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/professional-opinions-on-development-frameworks/107829>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 26, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/professional-opinions-on-development-frameworks/107829 "2007-06-26T16:52:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![willhardy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@willhardy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willhardy)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/professional-opinions-on-development-frameworks/107829/1 "2007-06-26T16:52:42Z")

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Dear Rails web developers,

I’m currently part of a research team at the Free University of  
Berlin, looking into the ways in which the major web development  
platforms differ. In addition to our work with the Plat\_Forms contest,  
we’re now looking for actual professional opinions.

If you have practical experience in the development of non-trivial web  
applications with two or more web development languages then we would  
like you to participate in a short survey. We are keen to have as many  
Rails developers as possible complete the survey, especially as we  
were unable to field a Rails team for this year’s Plat\_Forms contest.  
The survey itself runs on your friendly nemesis, Django.

The questionnaire asks you about your experiences and opinions on two  
of the web development languages you have used, and should take about  
10-15 minutes to complete. To thank you for your participation, you  
will be able to provide an email address and we will send you our  
final report when we are finished compiling it.

```
http://www.plat-forms.org/survey/

```

We look forward to your answers and experiences, let me know via email  
if you have any questions: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

Will Hardy  
Plat\_Forms survey team

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**Author:** ![willhardy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@willhardy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/willhardy)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/professional-opinions-on-development-frameworks/107829/2 "2007-06-27T12:12:41Z")

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PS: if you are a member of digg or Slashdot and would like to support  
the survey, here are the relevant articles:  
[http://digg.com/programming/How\_does\_your\_web\_development\_platform\_rate](http://digg.com/programming/How_does_your_web_development_platform_rate)  
[Comparing web development platforms empirically - Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=205681)

Cheers,

Will Hardy  
Plat\_forms survey team