Re: Ruby on Rails vs. WebObjects

On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:

> 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.

	With only limited experience with both platforms my impression is  
that for smaller projects (everything lives on one server, for  
instance) that RoR is probably a quicker way of going if you want  
full control. WebObjects Direct-to-Web is probably even faster, but  
you wind up hitting the wall where customization start to take you  
into a full WO application pretty quickly.
	On the other hand, if you are looking for a full blown application  
that needs a cluster of computers to run, and has the ability to be a  
web service, or a Java application (desktop) the WebObjects really  
starts to shine. I do hope that Apple continues to develop  
WebObjects, and uses CoreData as a project to extend it to small  
scale applications as well (the two are conceptually similar, but my  
understanding is that that is where the similarity ends)..

		Karl Kuehn
			[email protected]