Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 18th Jul 2005 16:21 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Ruby on Rails is a relatively new web application framework built on the Ruby language. It is billed as an alternative to existing enterprise frameworks, and its goal, in a nutshell, is to make your life -- or at least the Web development aspects of it -- easier. This article will contrast the Rails framework against a typical J2EE implementation using common open source tools that are regularly found in enterprise applications.
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Ruby on Rails seems to be gaining momentum, so the answer is, of course, yes. However, I'd wish the 10,000 other "me too" APIs out there (do we really need another object persistence API?) would just curl up and die off.
The weaker projects get adopted by naive programming teams and they get left making excuses to their bosses why thy can't upgrade or why they can't add support for a new tool or whatever.
Folks, just because it appears on the cover of a magazine does not mean it has been validated by the test of time. Magazines will publish anything to fill up their pages, even if it is complete rubbish. They always leave it open ended like "Framework XYZ seems promising" or "the company says these issues will be worked out in the next version...". Whatever.