AlwaysCharging wrote: >> If I can give you a suggestion, worry about something when you � >> actually have that problem, not before. > > I don't know if I really agree with this. I'd rather head off a > problem far in advance of it ever becoming one, which is why I didn't > want to doom myself at the start.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." --Donald Knuth It makes sense to pick a framework that can grow with you, but (except for certain simple cases) your performance bottlenecks may not be where you expect. Therefore, if you optimize prematurely, you may be optimizing for the wrong thing. > However, I do agree that it may be > silly to worry about a (negligible?) speed improvement over an app > that I haven't even started yet. I just wanted to make the right > decision from the start so that I have to never look back and would > never have to do a complete code rewrite due to the language. Your code should always be well enough tested and easy enough to refactor that doing a complete rewrite (if, God forbid, you ever had to) should be relatively easy. > > > And also I agree with your comments about bottlenecks. I think more > of a site's performance relies on database optimization more than the > language itself. However, I could be wrong. Depends on the site. [...] > I guess what's solidifying my choice for Rails is that it was pulled > from a far more collaborative site than Django (which was born from a > newspaper site). Although I'm sure both of their underlying languages > are capable of far more than that, I fear that I'm reduced to using to > a framework due to my current level expertise (which is none at the > moment). It's not a question of being "reduced" to using a framework. It's much easier and more maintainable to code an application with a framework than without one. Please don't get the idea that general-purpose frameworks like Rails are only for novice programmers. > > >> Welcome. >> >> � �ngw > > Thank you! > and thanks to everyone else that's chimed in on this thread. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
