generates models, views and controllers
and basic web forms
for a web application
generates unit, functional and integration tests
and fixtures
does remote deployment with ssh and subversion
versioning
transactions
basic object-relational mapping which needs no code if you follow column naming conventions
transitive dependency management
load balancing
it finds things if you put them in the right place
no packages
no classpaths
no XML config files
versioned builds
against versioned libraries
smalltalk + perl
object oriented AND it does the job