similar to: Advocating RoR in the enterprise?

Before I get flamed, I just want to start off by saying that I am new to Ruby and I really enjoy this language and want to see it succeed. But, what niche does this language fill? These are serious question, not a put down of the language. Does it has something to offer for Web 2.0? Is it just another scripting language? Does it suppose to replace something else? Does it suppose to work with

I sure hope so: http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2006/03/additional-thoughts-on-why-ruby-isnt.html Seems like it''s getting genuine rebuttals, though. It''s actually kind of amusing.

Hi, Is anyone using Oracle with RoR successfully? Is everything running smoothly? What are the main issues? any response is appreciated thanks, Chris -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I am a RoR newbie and I''ve been experimenting with different databases (mySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) and different table types (MyISAM vs. InnoDB). Is there a preferred database/table type for RoR development. I like how MySQL''s InnoDB tables enforce referential integrity, but these tables require a lot more storage space then MyISAM tables. For everyone with a lot of RoR

I am starting a large project and still selecting what framework to use. Rather than ask brand x what is wrong with brand y, I am more interested in self confession. Why would I *not* want to use Rails (compared to Iowa and Nitro). I posted a synopsis of the project to ruby-talk but will repost it here if anyone wants it. xev

Not that I have your attention! :P I''ve been having a discussion with a respected colleague here: http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10340411 (Rails vs. PHP) He''s basically saying that Rails won''t be able to scale because referential integrity and tranactions are done in the application rather than the database. Please read the referenced thread for much more

I am a web developer using PHP and very limited JavaScript. I keep hearing about RoR and am interested in learning it, but before I make the jump I''d like to hear about the types of applications I should be using it for. On all the tutorials you see big apps like stores, social networking, shopping carts, etc. I don''t have any immediate plans to be building something that

RoR Equivalence of TSQL Stored Procedures and User defined functions As I browsed through the tutorials and online eBook ?Programming Ruby?, I have not come across the terms ?Stored Procedures? or ?User-defined functions? as I know them in SQL 2000. However, the online documentations in MySQL 5.0 show that Stored Procedures and User-defined functions are supported in MySQL 5.0. I wonder what

Why Ruby on Rails won''t become mainstream http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000382.html Kind of interesting, but didn''t convince me. Though, yeah, I can imagine a lot of naive programmers sticking with PHP and VB (the type of crowd that also doesn''t run their own servers, so they''re dependent on hosts offering Rails for them). Rails DOES have an IDE - soon

hi, I recently attended one of the ruby meetings that we have in my city. There one of the speaker said that google,amazon .. are working on RoR but still the performance of RoR is not at par with J2EE others.... he meant that though google,amazon working o it they will not bring it as front applications only parts the reason ruby is slow in comparison to other languages.... and in real time

Hi, Does anyone knows how to manage transactions in RoR. Thanx

Application 1 is an auditing application called AuditSystem. Application 2 is a quality control appllication called QC. App1 has a couple of classes, including models, that i would like to use with App2. I would like a change in a class to be felt in both applications. How do i acheive this without copying and pasting code?? At the moment im feeling i should have made the whole thing one

I''m coming from an Oracle and SQL Server background. I''d like to use OpenSource for my next RoR project. MySQL5.x and Postgres8.1 seem to be the most popular. I''d like some comments on which would be the better choice for a production environment and why. Here are my initial concerns in order of priority: 1. Works well with RoR. ( migrations, etc) 2. Stable enough

Good Evening, I need some advice. I am in a position at work where I''ve got the boss pretty excited about rails. I think I could swing the Next Generation version of our product to use rails as the platform, but I find myself a little hesitant to do so until I''ve answered a few issues that I''m hoping people on this list could help me with. Firstly, we are tied to

Hi, normally I am doing all my webprojects with PHP. But now I am planning to use a framework, either Ruby On Rails, or Java in particular J2EE with Java Spring, or Struts Shale. Well, I already tried RoR a few month ago, so I am simply comparing it to the Java alternatives now. My problem is, that maybe using Java for my projects is like using a dredger to grub a small hole :) But on the other

Hi all, I''m asking this question from the standpoint of a developer with almost 10 years experience with Microsoft technologies, mostly doing server side component and database work. So, I''m not very familiar with the java world. Can anyon tell me how/if java development can complement Ruby on Rails development? I''m not interested in how java can duplicate Rails

Hi all, On theserverside.com there is an article describing an interview with Bruce Tate, where he calls Java dead like Cobol. See: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39066 However in the comments, some guy comes up with a good point: He states the following: <quote> I couldn''t come up with a viable enterprise quality/grade deployment platform for RoR. Even

Hi, Is rails supposed to support referential integrity? That is rails either support to be able to ensure that when a new contact is created this can only happen if a valid suberb is associated with it, and which mechanisms of the below are supposed to do this? (a) using DB foreign key constraints information as a basis? (b) using the "has_one" line in the model file to enfore? If

3 things that should be part of the main Rails tree: http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/rails_plugins.html Views? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, I''ve started reading some Java books. Gasp! What makes website development with Java so bad? I haven''t looked at Struts but I''m reading about Hibernate. Compared to ActiveRecord, Hibernate seems like some extra typing to explicitly define the model fields, getters and setters. I know that these are things that you can do in ActiveRecord when things get complicated