Web experiment: ASP.NET MVC 3 vs Rails 3.2.3 vs CakePHP 2.1

Ken — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:02:46 +0000

At the moment, I’m still waiting on my computer equipment to make its way across the country to reach me at my new apartment. In the mean time, I’ve come up with a new experiment to play around with – this time, in the web development department. In this experiment, I’m going to take three popular MVC frameworks and pit them against each other in developing a feature-light Message Board system.

Each system will use the same logic behind the application itself, varying only in language (C#/Ruby/PHP) and convention where needed by the framework. Each site will be deployed and tested on two servers:

1) Microsoft IIS 7.5 running on my desktop computer (when it arrives).
2) Debian 6.0 running on my Linode.

Each will use MySQL 5 for database storage, gravatar for storing off-site user avatars, jQuery & jQuery UI, Sass stylesheets and will focus on a completely RESTful execution style. I will be discussing the effort involved in establishing development tools for each of these, their execution speed, ease of development (with regard to how intuitive working with the MVC framework is), and ease of deployment (to both Apache 2 and IIS 7.5). I will also be making the source code for these projects open for scrutiny – so people a little more familiar with each of the frameworks can yell at me about what I messed up that caused their framework of choice to fair worse than the others. :3

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Web experiment: ASP.NET MVC 3 vs Rails 3.2.3 vs CakePHP 2.1