[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-02 Thread Julian Leviston
Um right lol, so go the rails bdd path - and use iterative development, costing modularly, and you hopefully won't go wrong. It's very hard for things to become disasters or very late when you START with tests and expected outcomes that are small. Get an experienced team and you should be

[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-02 Thread george
After reading more posts Rails is something that I will investigate fully. Thank you for your good help. On Apr 1, 9:00 am, Agustin Nicolas Viñao Laseras wrote: > I work in drupal, drupal is very hard to change after a deploy. Develop in > Drupal is very tedious, complicated every step in an run

[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-02 Thread george
I will do much more research. Thank you for this sound advice! I read somewhere that 60% of software projects are late, and $30 are disasters On Apr 1, 8:54 am, Julian Leviston wrote: > That seems way too cheap, without knowing a real spec. Is thedrupal  > solution coded with tests inbuilt? Prop

[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-02 Thread george
Thank you for your input. Yes I have a little experience with PHP and I agree with your assessment of Drupal. Ruby was recommended to me by a trusted colleague. On Apr 1, 4:37 am, Fernando Perez wrote: > george wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > I have gotten quotes with severaldrupaldevs and wanted to c

[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-01 Thread Starr Horne
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:40:21 -0700 (PDT) george wrote: > Between the range of $2500-5000 can I have a custom site created in > ruby, similar fashion to those of other video sites (except no public > video uploads) that can work in conjunction with quicktime streaming That's not a lot of money f

[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-01 Thread Agustin Nicolas Viñao Laseras
I work in drupal, drupal is very hard to change after a deploy. Develop in Drupal is very tedious, complicated every step in an running application. Rails is very flexible and if the application is well developed, it is easier to make changes and if they did the test, you can change something and s

[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-01 Thread Julian Leviston
That seems way too cheap, without knowing a real spec. Is the drupal solution coded with tests inbuilt? Properly coded rails is a lot more maintainable, but you'd be better researching developers no matter the language. Blog: http://random8.zenunit.com/ Learn rails: http://sensei.zenunit.co

[Rails] Re: site with drupal vs ruby

2009-04-01 Thread Fernando Perez
george wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have gotten quotes with several drupal devs and wanted to compare > this with ruby on rails. 1.5 years ago, I started working with Drupal (and therefore PHP), it was a terrible experience. Drupal is kind of a unfinished CMS framework with which you have to hack u