Karthick Nagarajan

Drupal is a Content Management System, it is a HUGE pile of code that gives you a full working website directly after install. It already handles users, articles, permissions, uploading data… so that you can start a small website even if you don’t know a word of code. However, if you want to change it, you will have to learn about the internals of the beast and develop your own plug-ins to alter its behavior. Ruby on Rails is a framework, it’s more like an empty shell to fill with the logic you need. It is a set of useful classes and functions so that you don’t waste time on low-value tasks when developing a website. At first, a RoR application does nothing, but you can start developing features very quickly, and you can do basically anything you want. It is infinitely much more flexible than Drupal but you have had to do everything yourself.