On 30/08/2006, at 3:24 PM, Mark Stanton wrote: > > Hi Andrew > >> I still see RoR the same as ModleGlue. > > Here is the rails API documentation: http://api.rubyonrails.com/ > > If you take the ColdSpring, MG, Reactor and CFAjax + big chunks of the > CF language (where CF is abstracting away tricky stuff like queries, > mail, includes, custom tags, etc..) you'll end up with something like > Rails.
A lot of the things in the rails docco (e.g. controllers, view helpers) were also mentioned in my presso at Webdu. One point that no-one has mentioned yet: CF runs as Java bytecode, on a VM which both Sun and IBM have spent 100s of millions of development dollars optimising over the last decade. This was the whole point of the MX release. Ruby still runs in it's own proprietary interpreter (hmm, kind of like... CF <= 5) which is a fair bit slower (although you can write high performance code in any language with appropriate caching etc, and most of the 37Signals RoR apps at least are very fast). As I have stated publicly elsewhere I think Ruby is a great language (and it's use of mixins for it's libraries too), and RoR is a sensible web app framework, but there is no particular magic about it - all the RoR things can be done in CF and in fact are being done under the auspices of various existing CF frameworks, but the ever present CF cultural cringe factor tends to make the community think that somehow good patterns, frameworks etc only happen to other platforms... ______________ Robin Hilliard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
