Lately, though, I’ve noticed the tone of the arguments in the Django community getting nastier — especially when it comes to Rails. Again, I’m far from innocent in this regard: I’ve certainly done my fair share of Rails-bashing, and I regret it.

I think it’s important to recognize that we in the web development community do in fact owe Rails and the Rails community a debt of gratitude. Rails helped reframe the way we think about web development, and even those who’ve never touched Rails nevertheless are probably reaping indirect benefits right now.

So I think we should all step back from our personal preferences and plainly say thank you, Rails, for all that you’ve done to move the state of web development forward.

I think the CFML community could stand to take this attitude to heart. As a community we spend WAY too much time patting each other on the back and blindly blasting our supposed enemies, when what we should be doing is taking off our blinders and learning from what else is out there. We don't do nearly enough of that in my opinion.