Cheers for your input Dr Nic, I wasn't actually specifically targeting rails - rails 3.0 certainly looks to be much more enticing as far as frameworks goes as you'll be able to plug and play various libraries together, but not many frameworks do this =P
Kirk On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Dr Nic Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > People talk about "rails doesn't scale" and mean performance. What I love > about Rails is that scales for the size of the project. You can start a > micro project today, and it easily evolves into a bigger project. > The single-file-contains-my-app frameworks aren't wrong or broken; rather > they take away one of the oft-forgotten but awesome aspects of Rails: you > and I both know where our next model or controller is going to go. The > generators know it. The IDEs/editors know it. > The heavy-weightedness of Rails will probably become optional as we move to > 3.0 and beyond. > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Torm3nt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey all! >> >> I've recently been musing over the use of heavy frameworks (such as >> RoR) and how I'm beginning to see (in some cases) them being overused, >> mostly for the wrong purposes. In one instance I witnessed a Rails >> application for getting reports on a database. >> >> I've written my thoughts on this and would love to hear from some of >> the more intelligent people in this community, either of their own >> experiences or even a counter-argument =) >> >> http://www.kirkbushell.com/articles/using-the-right-tool-for-the-job >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Kirk Bushell >> >> > > > > -- > Dr Nic Williams > Mocra - Premier iPhone and Ruby on Rails Consultants > w - http://mocra.com > twitter - @drnic > skype - nicwilliams > e - [email protected] > p - +61 412 002 126 or +61 7 3102 3237 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
