tolas

After reading some of the comments, it looks like this only counts for tracking inside of google webmaster tools. It doesn't necessarily mean that this is true for page rank and the "google juice".

I completely agree that /blog was better than blog subdomain in the past, but this article has me convinced that google now treats them the same.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/08/reorganiz...

Am I wrong?

since you know ruby, i'd suggest ramaze, sinatra, merb or rails (in order of my preference)