In my opinion, Rails is a great platform for these types of
applications.  I am actively trying to sell a re-write of one of our
internal applications (healthcare EDI etc) to our internal stake
holders.  Why do I think it is a great platform?

Everything about Rails promotes the correct process in software
development.  Testing is made easy.  Code is separated into
components.  Etc...

Every application we have where I work has some small web component,
but large healthcare EDI compenents.  Do a rail app for the web stuff
and then build your modules for backend processing, etc.

Ken
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