this is the exact opposite of the point the comment you replied to is making. Rails is not simple. we are talking about SIMPLE, like CGI. Rails is a classic example of a slow bloated framework.
Rails makes a lot of very complicated things, very simple.
Doing what I'm trying to do with CGI would be a huge headache by comparison. When I said "how fast rails makes things" I meant from a standpoint of productivity.
Rails will be significantly faster than a CGI script that spawns a whole new process, starts up your script interpreter, etc. with every single web request.
