Can you recommend an alternative web application stack? [closed]

Question

I'm an experienced developer who has been working with .Net for the last 5 years or so. As I've been assembling an application stack for a startup idea I've had, I've noticed that many of the supporting tools that I would like to use are either flaky or have become commercial. As I have no revenue, and factoring in the cost for for Visual Studio, SQL Server (yes, I know about Biz Spark), etc, and I've suddenly realised that I should be looking elsewhere.

So, without further ado, here are my requirements and nice-to-haves. The obvious front-runners are Java and Ruby, but I'm happy to hear any other suggestions (Object oriented and compiled preferred but not required. PHP not welcome here).

Overall

• Mandatory: Supported by shared hosting to get started
• Desirable: Should not be too fiddly to get working (just work when components are plugged in)

Framework

• Mandatory: Modern mvc framework
• Mandatory: Fine-grained control over html output

Code Quality

• Mandatory: Logging framework
• Desirable: Static analysis (complexity, etc)
• Desirable: Generate UML diagrams of code structure
• Desirable: Test coverage reports

OOP Stuff

• Mandatory: ORM that handles semi-deep hierarchies, incl many-to-many relationships.
• Mandatory: Mock framework
• Mandatory: IOC container (probably its own category)

IDE

• Mandatory: Formatting assistance (indentation)
• Mandatory: debugging: break points, variable inspection
• Desirable: auto-completion: VS's intellisense is really nice. This is close to mandatory
• Desirable: debugging: in-place code execution (immediate window), move current frame backwards
• Desirable: Test framework integration

Code Quality

• Mandatory: Test framework
• Desirable: Code coverage
• Desirable: Generate documentation from code comments

Build

• Desirable: One click pull from SVN, build, test, code coverage, code documentation
• Desirable: Continuous integration (for later when we, er, get really big)

Other notes: I'm happy using Linux (would be quite refreshing!). I'm assuming MySQL for DB, as I don't require ACID compliance (and it's probably ACID by now anyway), and SVN for source control.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: Currently leaning towards Sinatra, as it looks very elegant, but allows the user to have as much or as little control as they want. And I will select an answer when I think the answers have stopped.

Answer 1

• Ruby
  • Ruby on rails
  • Sinatra
• PHP
  • Zend framework
  • Symfony
• Python
  • Django
  • Pylons
  • Web.py
• JVM
  • Wicket (Java)
  • Spring (Java)
  • Lift (Scala)