I agree with Andy. About the only excuse not to use Rails these days is it's still kind of a pain in the ass to deploy (but it's gotten MUCH better with Passenger and is fairly idiot proof now). Rails also makes life somewhat difficult if you're not following the Rails way; like working with legacy databases or for some reason needing to massively violate the MVC pattern. But, even those things are possible. Some Rails add-ons (gems, libraries) can be difficult on Windows as well. Ideally you're developing on a Mac and deploying to Linux. But, again, a lot of people dev on Windows... I did the first year I was doing Rails.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Andy Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been joining this mailing list for two days and read some interesting >> topics. >> I haven't started out my RoR installation yet, so i don't have any >> tech-related questions or experiences. But I wonder if I can get some inputs >> on RoR. I've been reading some posts over the internet, and I see that some >> of them mention "don't use RoR for something it does not meant to be used". >> I can't help but to question, exactly, what RoR meant to be used? And what >> kind of job that RoR shouldn't be used? >> I'm going to build a web based system, something like hospital information >> system, concerning patient health record and such, and wonder if RoR is >> perfect for this job? >> > > Absolutely. > > A dynamic website is ideal for Rails. I don't know what they other posters > mean (having not read them), but there used to be arguments about Rails not > scaling (not anywhere near being true now, if indeed it ever was). > > I probably wouldn't use it for a 1-3 page site, but anything more complex > than that, every time! > > Cheers, > > > Andy > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- 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.
