Just curious, what sites have you done using RoR?
-jmz --- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Chad Woolley wrote: > > Can't you feel the peace and contentment in this > block of code? Ruby > > is the language Buddha would have programmed in." > > Yeah, being pragmatic, Buddha probably would be > using RoR. The more > idealistic of us would likely be doing Smalltalk. > > > After reading several thousand blogs which argue > the pros and cons of > > RoR and seeing it used in a real shop, I think the > benefit does > > largely come down to the Ruby language itself. > > Bingo. Rails is only good *because* of Ruby. The > dynamic "magic" > that can be pulled to create very elegant looking > DSLs (domain- > specific languages) is the secret sauce that makes > Rails what is. > Sure, you can do wacky reflective stuff in Java and > get close, but > the natures of those languages are different at a > core layer. > > > Of course there's still > > big cons compared to Java - my main gripes are > lack of a real > > refactoring, intelligent code-completing IDE > > Many gripe about this. Personally I have had great > success being > interactive and using IRB tab completion to explore > and learn an > API. In Rails, script/console is amazing - your > entire Rails > environment immediately accessible live. > > > , and lack of something as > > nice as Maven to automatically manage your > external and cross-project > > dependencies. > > RubyGems manages 3rd party library dependencies > nicely, and with > Rails you can "freeze" it to a particular project. > There is also > Capistrano (formerly Switchtower) for project > automation such as > testing and deployment. I'm not aware of much in > the way of > automated deployment tools in the Java world that > compares to > Capistrano. Its much trickier to generically deploy > a Java > application because of the various ways every > application server > deploys. > > > Oh, and speaking of XML parsing performance - AJAX > is now officially > > old news. AJAJ (Async Javascript And JSON, > Javascript Serialized > > Object Notation) is the wave of the future. We > don't need no stinking > > XML! > > Sending back XML was old news almost a decade ago. > > Erik > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
