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Ruby Off the Rails

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the train-of-thought-derailed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting writeup on Ruby that takes a look at the programming language as a stand-alone solution rather than defining it in terms of Rails. From the article: 'Ruby on Rails is just one facet of what makes Ruby great, just like EJB is only part of the Java enterprise platform. Andrew Glover digs beneath the hype for a look at what Java developers can do with Ruby, all by itself. Ruby's syntax is quite different from that of the Java language, but it's amazingly easy to pick up. Moreover, some things are just plain easier to do in Ruby than they are in the Java language.'"

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  1. Re:What I need to know by arevos · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Before I even consider Ruby: is it faster and less memory hungry than Java.
    If the answer is no, then I'm not going to waste any effort on it.

    If speed and memory usage is your only criteria when choosing a language, why not use C or assembly?

  2. Re:It's obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

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