I thought that same way until I really got into creating some applications with it. To me it's unbelievable how much stuff is available in that framework. I think where most people get hung up is on comparing Rails to CF. Rails is a framework that provides a lot of functionality for you. Ruby, the underlying language would be the comparison to CF. In my opinion, Ruby comes out stronger because it's not only a web app language, it's available straight from the command prompt if you like. Plus, it's not stuck in the middle like CF is, in that CF is a loosely typed language built on top of a strictly typed language which causes some pain. Ruby is built ground up as an object language for which each object has standard methods of to_i, to_s, etc.
One thing I will say is that in learning Rails, my CF programming quality has definitely increased. Heck even my javascript programming quality has increased. On 4/19/06, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically with Ruby it comes down to this (in my short investigation of > it....I > stopped because it is NOT the Holy Grail).... > > It does lots of stuff for you...right up until it needs to something > different > then the default...then you are right back writing custom code to make > your > "something different" work. > > So IMHO unless you are writing VERY simple interfaces and data > interactions, you > might as well just write your code from scratch (or your own wonderful > code > libraries etc). > > So no...RoR does not make coding magically simple, but it does make simple > coding magic ;-) > > HTH > > Cheers > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > phone: 250.480.0642 > fax: 250.480.1264 > cell: 250.920.8830 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.electricedgesystems.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238156 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
