Last week on Top of the Mountains I mentioned my FHLC/UVRFHC mashup (which I’m now calling BYUFHLC). It’s written in Ruby on Rails and is 75% done (I just have to add support for the non-place searches, like surname and such). Here at the Center for Family History and Genealogy, my employer has gotten interested in it, especially with the possibility of packaging it up to deploy at other family history centers.

Which leads to the question: is Ruby on Rails good for that? I mean, I know it’s superior to something like PHP or Perl, and I much prefer it, but what are the chances that those family history centers are going to be able to support a Rails app? It seems like PHP would be a better choice, since it’s guaranteed to be installed and supported. I don’t really want to recode it in PHP, though. :)

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