Rails, they’re not just for railroads anymore…

October 31, 2005

Interesting article on c|net this morning titled, "Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming." The article condenses what we have been saying all summer, "it is a great tool for developing Web 2.0 applications."

The Burton Group, a research company, "recommends that corporate customers consider Ruby on Rails for new web development progrects." Why shouldn’t you use rails? The article suggests that it is only practical when you have complete control of the database schema - i.e. ‘green field’ applications. This is because Rails does not support common database features such as stored procedures. The Rails guys believe that ’stored proceedures’ are "evil!"

Ruby has been around since the 1990s (invented in Japan) and David Hansson from 37Signals released the Rails version back in July of 2004.

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Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Uncategorized