Re: Ruby on Rails vs. WebObjects

There was a discussion on this last October

http://wodeveloper.com/omniLists/webobjects-talk/2005/October/mailthrds.html#00005

Some pertinent opints there.

Geoff


On 28/02/06, Karl J. Kuehn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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]
>
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