In light of Derek "I did it in 2 months with PHP" Sivers and as I prepare to brief a hit level government bureaucrat on Ruby and Rails later this week, I'm...
I've had great success in being able to move quicker with web tier development than could have been done with any Java web framework that I have experience...
... Couldn't agree more. A few months ago I tried out a fairly complex Rails application that we were working on in JRuby. Except for one or two glitches here...
I worked on a small J2EE project. We were integrating an old existing piece of functionality that had been around for ages with a new piece that extended it....
Many of you have probably already come across this: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html which talks about a...
Amen WRT JRuby. However, it would certanly be nice to have native extensions! Until then, I'll put my money on Rubinius to ultimately replace MRI -- that is...
In terms of systems replacement, we had a lot of success replacing and extending an ASP application with a Rails application incrementally. By incremental, I...
Last year we had a 'shootout' for a project between rails and Java. The Java work had already been proceeding about 3 months on top of BEA's weblogic portal,...
Dave: Was the Rails implementation well tested? Granted these are all just anecdotes. I would more conservatively use Stu Halloway's metric of a couple years...
I cannot speak to the testing coverage of the Java app, but the rails app got 60% of its functionality from Ajax Scaffold (now ActiveScaffold, which is...
I would like to mention that the universe of modern computer languages includes more than just Java vs Ruby. For example, when Smalltalk is thrown into the...
+1 ActiveScaffold I played with this a little on the flight out to RailsConf 07 and it just blew me away. And, after meeting Lance Ivy, one of the two ...
Maybe after I get my life back under control... Triplets at home and a job that has me commuting 3-4 hours a day has me stressing for time right now... -db ...
True, but that wasn't the question that started the thread, nor the experience I can comment on. If anyone has any experience with Seaside, I'd like to hear...
Hello everyone, I'm new to this group and actually don't know squat about Ruby except that I heard it's a pretty kick a** web development language. For well...
... Regrettably, the Washington D.C. Smalltalk Users Group is only a short historical fact. Yet, you are giving me a motivation to study Seaside. Hopefully,...
... I've often wondered why Ruby became so popular while Smalltalk never really became widespread. After all, Smalltalk has all of the good stuff that you find...
Has anybody done anything with this around here? I started playing with flex this week and wanted to hook it to a back end. I found a website with an examle...
About a year ago, my team prototyped an app that uses Flex 2 with Rails ActionWebService (SOAP) services. Obviously, the Rails part was painless because AWS...
Intridea is looking for senior and junior application engineers to join our team. Senior engineers should have a strong Ruby background, recent and relevant...
Steve, Ick. Flex 2 event handlers are poorly named -- hence the violation of principle of least surprise remark. To be fair, "bells and whistles", where Flex...
This is where I differ from many programmers. I like creatign applications that get used. Using Flex I can create a very compelling front end for relatively ...
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