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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.