well , ROR is definitely a great framework for web developers, it‘s young but full of energy and charming.
but unfortunately, I don’t like Ruby grammar…
there should be many other frameworks cloning ROR , but the next 3 is my favorite in their languages,
all of them are full stack framework, which means they all support MVC, template, route, security, ORM etc.
1. Symfony
http://www.symfony-project.org/
written in PHP which is the most used program language in web development.
the greatest point of symfony is its easy database migrate with ORM, a lot of caches mechanism and a very simple but effective view template
2. Grails
written in Groovy,
the greatest point is that it’s fully compatible with JDK
3. Django
http://www.djangoproject.com/
written in Python
4. Spring Roo
http://www.springsource.com/download/community?project=Spring%20Roo
it’s spring native guy, you know what it means