computerworld.com.au — Look out, Java. Ruby on Rails is staking out your turf. But all is not lost for Java, which still enjoys advantages in areas such as security, based on feedback at the Ruby on Rails Camp event, held Thursday at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
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whiskerthemadNov 11, 2006
"...Ruby was tough since it is so different, but when you get the hang of it, it's a lot of fun."This is exactly the point. Java is "work," Ruby is "fun;" that's the popular (and, in my opinion, deserved) perception.
gr8edchzNov 11, 2006
I'm glad to see a story about ruby and RoR. I second that comment though about the rails wiki. A lot of the information is old and it's full of spam pages. It's pretty useless as it is right now.It seems difficult to find any good online tutorials that are actually keeping up with Rails development. The best I found was the beta book Agile Web Development with Rails. Many of the examples actually require edge rails in anticipation of Rails 1.2. I like that since it's nice to actually be a little ahead.Ruby and RoR rock. Seriously, it's really, really good IMHO. But, it seems like the rails teams might want to pay a little more attention to the community home base. Do a little house cleaning perhaps. The ruby forge is a great resource though. Very active.D.H.H. doing interviews saying that he doesn't care if anyone uses RoR or not because it's good for him and that's what matters might not be the best marketing one could do. That's not a direct quote from him mind you, just from an interview I recently read online.As for Java... You can have your Java on Trails I hear. Ya Yah..
codahaleNov 12, 2006
Rails trunk currently has full support for Unicode strings, and the next major version of Ruby should have it native. Unicode support is one of those tricky things, since Unicode (oddly enough) isn't universally popular, especially in places like Japan, where most of the core Ruby developers are from (including Matz himself). Ruby has supported EUC and SJIS from way-back-when, and some of the pushback on Ruby has to do with Japanese disapproval of the Han unification in Unicode.
codahaleNov 12, 2006
(Digg hates angle tags, so my funny Ruby code wouldn't be syntactically correct. Grr.)
caughtthinkingNov 12, 2006
oh i dunno, yahoo, google, ebay come to mind... lol. oh wait ror has BASECAMP stop the presses!
caughtthinkingNov 12, 2006
dave you're kidding me. i know zip about sys-admining stuff but installing java on windows/linux/solaris has been easy. after which the coding on one and testing/deploying on another is completely transparent. either you dont know what you're doing or you're lying through your teeth :