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But there are dozens and dozens of Web development products out there, many of them very good, so what makes Ruby on Rails so special? One is that the Rails' design focuses on trying to make the common Web development tasks fall-down-the-stairs easy, and it invariably succeeds. Like the Rails home page says, "Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration." Rails proponents are reknowned for their plain spokeness and directness and the result of this attitude is clear throughout the framework. 
The concept of abstraction is critical to enlisting the thousands of
traditional developers who have not yet entered the web world. RoR’s
contribution in this needs to be acknowledged, but so must Morfik’s
www.morfik.com who has since last year been pushing the same barrow, though
without requiring the adoption of yet another language. I noted that
recently they opened up their website and claimed in their email to testers
of which I am one
“The JavaScript AJAX Engine which will run in your browser and display the page, and the backend business logic was developed using the WebOS AppsBuilder’s Visual Designer. Just for fun we decided to use the Object Pascal language for this project, but as you know Morfik supports the four most popular development languages: C#, Java, Basic and Pascal.
There's been a lot of FUD
flying around the web lately that Java and other languages are being
threatened by PHP and Ruby on Rails. The important distinction to make is
that PHP and RoR are tailored to building web applications, while Java and
C# are general-purpose programming languages that can do the same thing and
more.
Because the benefits of Ruby far outweigh the difficulty of learning yet
another language. The syntax is dead-on simple and very readable.
What do you think of Rails? Is it a Java and C# killer or just another
Perl and PHP?
While RoR will likely overtake web development as a framework of
choice, I sure pray that Ruby will overtake Java and C# for
everything else. :-)
Ruby will really help developers make ideas reality. Hopefully more people
will adopt the system.
Dear sir, you are an idiot. Let me know when RoR can do 2-phase commits,
async messaging to legacy systems, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc... and when is
the last time you saw a system running RoR that had a couple hundred
thousand concurrent users doing "real" work?
"they support almost 400,000 users"
What would make you say that Rails is "near mainstream?"
Sheesh, this article is as dense as a Christmas fruitcake combined with a
pound-and-a-half cake.
"they support almost 400,000 users on just 13 servers"... what a useless
statistic. What does this mean? 400,000 concurrent users with active
sessions using the system at the same time OR a user enrollment base of
400,000? Supporting an enrollment user base of 400,000 users on 13 systems
is simply pathetic. So, basically 37Signals saved development time using
Ruby on Rails but traded the gain for an enormous amount of hardware?
RoR is frightening some of you and I love that !
Supporting an enrollment user base of 400,000 users on 13 systems is
simply pathetic.
sheeeez. YES, the RoR folks (should say kids) do need to calm down the
hype machine.
With this version Ruby will be more and more popular in the developers
community.
Discovered your Web2 blog today.
Discovered Social Computing concept today.
While business and government always try to keep us apart, a practice which
minimises our group effectiveness in asserting our perspective, W2W might
just be the concept that brings the citizenry together allowing us to
become a concerted voice in the future management of our society. Maybe,
just maybe we will be able to tell our 'elected representatives' what we
think about things such as DAFUR and MODERN SLAVERY and our disgust that
nothing is ever really accomplished d apart from window dressing.
W2W might just be the technology that enables a sufficiently deep global
groundswell of opinion that will encourage our 'elected representatives and
other dictators' to do something for future society. Perhaps they would
even add it to their priority list immediately below fullfilling their
obligations to their backers and securing their own future. Better still!
W2W might enable candidates to reach enough voters without the huge flood
of $$ currently necessary to stand any chance of getting elected.
I think we had better be sure we know who has their hands on the switch;
somebody will want to be able to switch this thing off if it gets to
troublesome for them.
Dion -- Watched the video, thanks for the insightful interview!
>> What do you think of Rails? Is it a Java and C# killer or just
another Perl and PHP?
Guys. Java uses byte code and is write once execute anywhere, any operating
system. The Java JVM is necessary for Ruby installation. This is the
definition of hype - outrageous statements that when reviewed at a lower
level reveal profound misinformation. When it works with Oracle, which it
dosen't (yes the ruby oracle oci8 interface is problematic) then it will be
enterprise strength. Till then .. waste your time learning a new
programming language limited in it's ability to interface with existing
databases, and plan to wait for a few years to get the rest of the tools to
get the job 100% finished.
Stop lying, you don't need JVM for Ruby installation.
Rails would compare better with j2ee and php than php imo. And you dont
need JVM for Ruby. ^
