RE: Ruby on Rails vs. WebObjects

Yes.  And I'd just like to point out that I started that thread.  Why?  I'd
like to say it was because of my amazing creativity and intelligence, but in
fact, it was due to my deep insight and vision.

Bruce 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geoff Hopson
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:57 AM
To: Karl J. Kuehn
Cc: webobjects-talk; Brendan Duddridge
Subject: 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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