I have been using Rails for about a year and a half now and have done a couple of apps with Flex frontends on rails backend apps. I agree with Dale, it completely depends on your intention. I am not an expert in hibernate, but I will say this for Rails: 1) There is a huge community and support system behind the ecosystem 2) The community is interested in modern application practices (TDD, BDD, agile, web standards) and the framework and related libraries reflect those commitments. 3) Ruby is an awesome language and fun to write and lends itself to agile principles like DRY, metaprogramming, etc 4) Heroku makes rails deployment easier than a wordpress deploy. 5) RestfulX framework makes the interface with Flex pretty easy. 6) setting up web services is a breeze and makes it easy to send data in any format to the Flex frontend (xml, JSON, amf, etc) 7) vim-rails
You may not like Ruby on Rails if: 1) you don't like POSIX based systems 2) you think an IDE is gods gift to man 3) you get paid by the number of lines of code you write 4) you'd rather use svn than git On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Dale Bronk <[email protected]> wrote: > Completely depends on what you are trying to accomplish. There is no > “xxxx tech is best for all”. > > > > Dale > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Eric > DeCoff > > *Sent:* Friday, May 14, 2010 7:14 AM > *To:* AFFUG > *Subject:* [AFFUG Discuss] Ruby on Rails vs MVC Spring / Hibernate > > > > Hey all, > > > > What is everyones opinion on Ruby on Rails vs MVC spring / hibernate? > > > > > > -- > Eric R. DeCoff > Changing the world, > 1 line of code at a time > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in > the subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Jed Schneider 706-207-4458 (m) 803-386-7214 jedschneider.posterous.com twitter.com/jedschneider github.com/jedschneider
