That's it you blaspheming frood, you're off to the Frogstar and into the Total Perspective Vortex!
You know, I tried to get into an evaluation of RoR, but from the initial setup to building a couple of apps, it just felt off somehow. It may be great, but it's one of those things, similar to JSP that I just didn't enjoy learning about. It seemed like a lot of extra work to anything custom at all and I kept commenting on how simple it would be to do whatever I was trying to do if I was doing it with CF. It's an unfair and very biased assessment no doubt, but I just didn't enjoy it at all. --Ferg Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > 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:4:238163 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
