By: Richard Wayne Garganta

Richard Wayne Garganta — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:55:18 +0000

I worked with RoR for about a year and had a ball with it. But with real estate it is location – with web apps it is IMPLEMENTATION. Implementation is sparse or very poor with most providers. They will basically tell you that you are on your own with RoR. It is a resource hog as well. It is not uncommon for someone to have their first RoR app working nicely UNTIL they go to deploy it.
After playing around for a year with it, I suddenly realized I wasn’t doing a damn thing I couldn’t do with PHP or existing technologies. So why was I bothering? PHP now has CodeIgniter for the MVC programming discipline. The reality is this – RoR will do what can be done now only differently. So why is it touted as the greatest thing since sliced bread? I have no idea. I think programmers just get bored doing things the same way. They were thrilled to find something that was different. I agree there is a beauty to RoR programming that is different. However I think RoR’s niche will be large businesses – not medium to small businesses.

By: jamongkad

jamongkad — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:59:53 +0000

Hi I also used PERL as my scripting language…well up until I’ve met Ruby Lets just say that I’m also at #4. I’m currently learning the ins and outs of Ruby as it is indeed a language you must master in order to know your way around Rails. I’m kind of vexed with the tutorials on the net though very helpful to familiarize yourself with RoR. But leaves me want something more. I’m glad to find a fellow RoR enthusiast who shares a insatiable hunger to learn all things Ruby/RoR. I’m currently trying to figure out on where to use Ruby as well…aside from writing small games and knick knacks with the language.

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