Technology stack selection : PHP, Ruby on Rails with World Press : <p>I have to create a web site with the functionality of similar to some e-commerce website, but it will also have a user forum and the users will have ability to write blogs/articles. I will also have a mobile app (hybrid app for iOS and android), so I want my server side Rest APIs to be re-usable from my web front as well as from mobile app perspective (not 100% but at least the platform and technology I want to be same, so it will be easy for me to write back end code for my website and mobile app).</p>

<p>With above in my mind, I would prefer to leverage something like world press , as it will save me a lot of design and tempting time for my website and it also have forum plugins etc. I am the single developer who will be doing everything.</p>

<p>My questions are as below :</p>

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<li>If I go with World press, my only technology options are PHP/MySQL, is it correct? if yes, then how good the idea is to create REST APIs in PHP? up to what extend World press gives me option to write my custom code and customize my website from coding perspective?</li>
<li>Is Ruby on Rails a better fit for this scenario? can I use RoR with World Press? How are RoR server side REST APIs in terms of performance?</li>
<li>Not leaning towards the Node js solution as my use cases are not really heavily real time features, but more of a CRUD operations, and on top of that I will not be able to leverage any CMS such as World Press in this case.</li>
<li>For forum, is it a good idea to leverage some plugin such as bb press, or vBulletin? any other better option? I think writing of all the forum functionality from scratch won’t be a good idea.</li>
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<p>Any guidance will be highly appreciated.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>
