> >> shop owner. They were primarily a CF shop but have decided to do all > >> new development with Ruby on Rails. I'm only vaguely familiar with > >> Rails. What is so attractive about Rails that they would do this? > > > > I have no idea, now CF is free (Railo/OpenBD), esp. given the time it'll > > take > > to retrain and retool. > > I don't think the Rails draw is only price driven. It's the > auto-generation piece. We have some ways to do this, but there is not > something that just stands out. > > What is the learning curve on Rails? Maybe that coupled with price is > what is attracting people. Yes CF is easy to learn, but to jump into > auto-generated DB components takes some digging and learning.
http://datafaucet.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/18/autoinstall Though it took me only a few minutes to add the features that make it even simpler than is described in that blog entry. -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change? ph: 617.365.5732 http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307683 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4