Re: Is Ruby better?

Alrex
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:26:07 -0000

On Apr 9, 12:07 pm, Dilraj Sachdev
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wrote:
> Hi
> I am very new to Ruby and recently i started learning Ruby on rails
> also.
> I keep searching and reading articles to know about Ruby on Rails.
> I found many articles, where mostly Ruby is compared with Python, and in
> 80-90% cases it concludes that Python is better,

My advice is to not get caught up in the which language is better or
faster, instead look at the bigger picture.
What do you need the language for and what set of tools are available
to enable you to get the required job done most effectively. Those are
some of the core questions.

> based on performance, time taking to build app, admin section or
> easness. But I am not sure how true it is.

Rails vs Django article ;-)

Performance:
I hear this one all the time. My answer: a.) these are server-side
applications. b.) hardware is cheap.


> Is really Python is better than Ruby? or is somthing else which I dont
> know about Ruby. Is ROR works well on shared servers
>

List of some RoR hosting providers (a lot do support shared hosting):
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts

-Al

> Thank you very much.
> Dilraj
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