On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Bill Walton <bwalton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tony, > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Tony Maserati <ableton...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi. I'm trying to write about Rails for this magazine article. How > > does it look so far? I'm trying to explain it to the average man - NOT > > the developer. > > > > "Rails is a system which drastically simplifies web applications - by > > letting one develop using Ruby [1], by having a more reasonable way of > > organizing things [2], and by automating a lot more [3]. Rails also > > opens the door for failsafe applications by writing tests and then > > making sure the application passes these tests [4]" > > > > [1] Perl, Lisp and Smalltalk. [2] In conjunction with semantic, W3- > > verified HTML and CSS, and JavaScript via jQuery. [3] I.e. database > > management. [5] Behavior Driven Development via Cucumber. > > > > Anything I should add, rephrase or take away? Especially [3], is there > > anything I could add there? > > I'd start by trying to define the things this 'average man' cares > about and then talk about those things. I don't see anything above > that would have meaning / value for anyone _but_ a developer. You > might want to start with something like cost. > Also speed to market - which for me is not just speed to deploy, but speed to deploy (a) with high level of quality (b) what the client/public actually wants and is usable. But cost is big also - for one of my clients I easily outperform their dev staff of 4 .NET developers (who are doing waterfall method and automated-test-less development, who also insist on not using ORM layers and other things which Rails contains --- not that .NET dev could not be done better than this, but just an example which might be relatively common, especially to companies who are run by non-IT/Dev savvy/focused managers). Best regards, > Bill > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
