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Rolling With Ruby On Rails

Posted by michael on from the keep-those-doggies-rolling-rawhide dept.

Bart Braem writes "The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails at ONLamp, building a simple application that even non-Rubyists can follow."

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  1. Ruby still needs ISP support by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The biggest drawback to RubyOnRails is that you wont find it installed on very many webhosts.

    I given it a testdrive, and RubyOnRails is an amazingly fast and powerful way to develop webapps, but even so, it's been around for a while and still 99% of webhosts only stick to tomcat & PHP/MySQL, so that's what I code for. Even Python w/o Rails has more ISP support.

    My question is: When will RubyOnRails get "popular enough" to make inroads? I'm looking forward to it, because it means I can be way more productive and get a head start on all the other PHP "solution providers" out there.

  2. Rails is awesome by swimmar132 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've almost finished developing a real estate site using it. First time using Rails.

    In PHP or other related language, probably would've taken me about 80 hours or so to develop the site. In Rails, I've spent maybe 15 hours or so total on it. And I'm charging $8k for the site. Admittedly, that doesn't include time working on the graphics or design of the site, just the backend, search, etc.

    So if you look at it from one perspective, I went from making $100 an hour to $533 an hour using Rails!