Nice to read. I've heard about Ruby on Rails for some time now, but when I suggested it to my friends, they were quite sceptic and recommended javascript coupled with some well used libraries (angular.js + node.js). What's your opinion?
Node.js fits the general idea of a stack that has a templating framework and a dynamic language (JavaScript in this case). There are also data-access libraries. As a designer, you probably already know some JavaScript, so this could be an acessible option. But Node's programming model requires particular attention to deal with its asynchronous nature. Anyway, I would recommend you to pick one, do the tutorial and try to build a simple prototype. You'll learn a lot.
