Re: Ruby on Rails vs. WebObjects

On 28-Feb-06, at 10:35 AM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any experience developing large scale WebObjects  
> applications vs. large scale Ruby on Rails applications? We've been  
> developing WO apps for a long time, but WO seems to have stalled  
> for the past while whereas Ruby on Rails seems to have some  
> momentum to it. The AJAX libraries in Ruby on Rails looks interesting.
>
> Apple just posted a tutorial on using rails on OS X:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html

Karl Moskowski, Alex Finkel, and I took a road trip to Chicago  
earlier this month for the CAWUG meeting.

Jonathan Rentzch gave a very good comparison between the two. Perhaps  
he'd be willing to shoot you his slides.

My take after hearing his comparison is that if you really need AJAX  
and don't want to try implementing that support in WO then you might  
want to look at R on R. Other than that, I couldn't see any  
compelling reason to switch. Other than it being open-source and  
having the hype that is - not that those may not be compelling  
reasons for some :-)

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