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Ruby On Rails Showdown with Java Spring/Hibernate

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-of-the-overhead dept.

Paradox writes "Java developer Justin Gehtland recently tried re-implementing one of his web applications in Ruby on Rails instead of his normal Java Spring/Hibernate setup. His analysis of overall performance and application size was startling, to say the least. The Java app's configuration alone was nearly the size of the entire Rails codebase, and Rails application was significantly (15%-30%) faster! At the same time, the Ruby community is abuzz because Ruby is getting a new optimized bytecode compiler for its upcoming 2.0 release. Will Ruby on Rails become even faster as a result?"

3 of 555 comments (clear)

  1. ROR? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ROR bites. Try zope instead.

  2. Security by duffbeer703 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I recall one of the rather trivial Ruby on Rails tutorials having a remote code execution exploit.

    RoR is a cool concept, but definately not ready for any kind of real deployment.

    --
    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
  3. Re:Ruby is a toy by swimmar132 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yes. There's no way Ruby/Rails could really do any of the serious! and important! work that enterprise Java developers do every day.

    But wait, isn't that what this article is about? Hm.