Comments on: Ruby Isn’t It Great! http://www.inanger.com/languages/ruby-isnt-it-great/ Web Development, In Practice Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:34:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: THEMike http://www.inanger.com/languages/ruby-isnt-it-great/#comment-10 THEMike Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:49:37 +0000 http://www.inanger.com/languages/ruby-isnt-it-great/#comment-10 Exactly, the point being that RoR is being touted as "the messiah" by so many developers when it's nothing new. It's a scripting language with the issues of other scripting languages and a nice framework. Hell, look at PHP, ok it's got the cruft (C-like) but there's PHPUnit, Propel and the Zend Framework. And lots of other frameworks. Ruby has Rails. And a few other interesting Gems. The PHP Platform has a lot more, you're not tied into one thing. Exactly, the point being that RoR is being touted as “the messiah” by so many developers when it’s nothing new. It’s a scripting language with the issues of other scripting languages and a nice framework. Hell, look at PHP, ok it’s got the cruft (C-like) but there’s PHPUnit, Propel and the Zend Framework. And lots of other frameworks.

Ruby has Rails. And a few other interesting Gems. The PHP Platform has a lot more, you’re not tied into one thing.

]]> By: Ben Strackany http://www.inanger.com/languages/ruby-isnt-it-great/#comment-9 Ben Strackany Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:16:51 +0000 http://www.inanger.com/languages/ruby-isnt-it-great/#comment-9 I saw the same article & also noticed that certain aspects of Ruby seem cruftier than others. I have a BASIC/C++/C#/VB background, so the Ruby syntax feels foreign to me. I personally don't see the language as a big productivity boost for me (I feel pretty productive language-wise w/ C# 2.0 or VB.NET). Still, I'm looking forward to working with Rails for its other productivity enhancers like built-in unit testing, ORMs, code generation, & a thick framework -- all of which I've experienced & enjoyed first-hand with other platforms & languages, but not all in one tightly-intergrated package like Rails. So we'll see how it goes. I'm certainly not drinking any koolaid. :) I saw the same article & also noticed that certain aspects of Ruby seem cruftier than others. I have a BASIC/C++/C#/VB background, so the Ruby syntax feels foreign to me. I personally don’t see the language as a big productivity boost for me (I feel pretty productive language-wise w/ C# 2.0 or VB.NET).

Still, I’m looking forward to working with Rails for its other productivity enhancers like built-in unit testing, ORMs, code generation, & a thick framework — all of which I’ve experienced & enjoyed first-hand with other platforms & languages, but not all in one tightly-intergrated package like Rails. So we’ll see how it goes. I’m certainly not drinking any koolaid. :)

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