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Post by anjanesh »

Anyone heard of Ruby on Rails ?
Anyone find it useful ?

Just wanted to know your opinions - Search on rubyonrails returned 0 here.
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Heard of it, but never used.
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I went to look at it and after reading something that was simply a list of cliches strung together, from which I could derive no actual meaning whatever, I closed the window.
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The video was impressive though. "Build a blog system in 15 minutes"
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Post by Buddha443556 »

Heard of Ruby, Ruby on Rails even downloaded the source to have a look. Haven't had much use for Ruby, wrote a quick and dirty HTTP proxy once which is the extent of my experience with Ruby. However, that's a long ways from being able to form an educated opinion of Ruby or Ruby on Rails. I would like to see more details of how Ruby works and integrates with the server architecture?

However, as of right now, none of my shared hosts support Ruby or have any plans to do so. I don't see Ruby replacing my use of C/C++, Perl, Java or PHP at the moment. So Ruby, in general, is very low priorty for me.
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Im like most, heard of it, but never used it. I know someone that does use it and swears by it...cutting development time incredibly
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If it can cut development time incredibly then why isnt so famous ?
I came across this when going through a web host named ASmallOrange.
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Post by Buddha443556 »

anjanesh wrote:If it can cut development time incredibly then why isnt so famous ?
Its lack of fame probably has more to do with Ruby itself.

Google:

RUBY HOSTING -- 863,000
PYTHON HOSTING -- 2,510,000
PERL HOSTING -- 6,460,000
JAVA HOSTING -- 9,700,000
PHP HOSTING -- 24,300,000
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Ah...Just adding to Buddha's list :
ASP HOSTING -- 14,100,000
ASP .NET HOSTING -- 6,020,000 (2,640,000 is ASP and .NET is together)
Cold Fusion HOSTING -- 2,280,000
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No firsthand experience with it
My (very large) host (dreamhost) made it available 1 month ago to users
The outstanding design site ALA uses it
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I've seen the videos and thought "Hmm.. yeah it looks good..." (I like the lecture-style setup in the videos) but it just seemed a bit like it does too much for me to want to use it. I enjoy doing all that stuff myself. Maybe if I had a play around with it I'd be one of the one's swearing by it too. I'm all for keeping in touch with new technologies so really I should at least have a play with it for a week or two.
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Post by timvw »

I've seen only bad critiques on Ruby (on Rails) untill now.. The only positive notes i've heared is due the fact that you can easily create CRUD applications.. However, i've got components that do this in PHP too so i don't see why i would change.

Critique i've heared is the following: If you want to Read n records, you will end up with n+1 queries. Now, that is retarded :P
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Only heard it mentioned on DonBox's Spoutlet.
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Automated programing. I think it's an up and coming thing. Like it or not. What with the immergence of desktop gui's that generate code and Ruby on Rails.... Hmmm Could be a sign? Even if you don't like Ruby on Rails, what do you think of this trend? Here to stay or gone tomorrow?
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Post by feyd »

5GL is the future at some point, whether we like it or not.. Personally, I like it. Makes my life easier :)
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