That does depend a bit on just how "lightweight" the project is, and how day-to-day familiar you are with Rails.
For example, I wanted to write a quick UI for a script that controls our build light - I can't really see a good reason to write something like that in Rails (unless perhaps my team were using rails day-to-day for everything; sadly, we aren't). - Korny 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 > > > > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
