On 29/07/2009, at 10:00 AM, Andrew Snow wrote: > If deploying a Rails app onto a Java stack makes some big corporation > happy, all the more power to them. > > For the rest of us, I don't think too many people are going to be > happy > with the 30+ second startup time of the lumbering JVM every time they > want to run their tests...
This kind of group-think makes me angry. Well, not really angry, but disappointed that vocal members of the Ruby community misrepresent the community as a whole. Everyone has their own reasons for doing things. If Charles Nutter wants to persue JRuby in order to gain leverage in a corporate environment he feels comfortable with, I say good on him. He's scratching an itch, which is more than can be said about most people. Should we protect Ruby from the enterprise? Hell no! Should we focus all of our energy on making Ruby compelling to the enterprise? Again, hell no! What we *should* be doing is supporting multiple, compatible Ruby implementations. Saying we should shut down the competition or relegate it to only being useful in "some big corporation" is pure ad hominem, and frankly should have no place in a technical discussion. I personally use MRI/REE, not JRuby. But the fact that companies like Logical Awesome are moving sites with little to no Java investment over to JRuby (github.com) implies that there are benefits worth looking into. Cheers, Nathan de Vries --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
