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WordPress: I need to have an advanced membership website developed - do you have recommendations on choosing between WordPress and Ruby on Rails?
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Justinus Adriaanse, Entrepreneur, developer, geek and ski fanatic! answered:

In the short term I think you will get going quicker with Wordpress with some plugins that should enable what you are looking for.

But to make this decision I would first consider if this version of the product you are looking to build is just to test if your business can work - like an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) - or is it the long term version of something already tested and proven.

If you are still trying to figure out if what you want to do has any legs, then I would go with wordpress. Get it running in a few days and test everything you need to make it work. For example getting users, creating the content you need and learning how to convert visitor to paying members. If you spend a few week/months on this and you get answers to all the non-technical questions, you can also re-asses if it is time to build a fully custom solution.

If all the other parts are already figures out and you want a custom build technical solution that allows greater flexibility I would use Rails. Or some of the other frameworks like node.js or CakePHP.

There are also some software services online build for this. So make sure you look at them as well.

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