Hi, are there any really unbiased comparisons between rails and grails, and to which each framework is better suited for?
I'm coming from a java background, but I am not against using a non java solution if it's actually better. I am a little concerned with performance though. The site needs to really work well with 200,000 visits a day, and that's going to grow. I started to use grails, and it's all well and good, but there's some things i don't like about it. 1) The tests take forever to run 2) IntelliJ IDEA reports integration tests as passing and displays a green light, even though they fail. The test output stinks, so running them on the command line and checking an html test results file is the only thing you can do. This is awful. 3) Apparently saving a domain class that violates constraints does not throw an exception when testing. I can understand for production saves, but for tests?! It is so important to get good feedback rather than silence failures that do nothing. Maybe over time, I will just "know", but I can hardly see how silent failures are more productive. I spent 30-45 minutes wondering why the test was failing because it looked totally fine and mirrored the examples. 4) It has slow code->browser cycles.. and sometimes you gotta restart tomcat anyway because the class loading blows up. It happens a lot more than they say it does. The one thing I have against rails/ruby is that I hate their method names. Underscores are confusing to me because they sort of look like operators. Maybe can get used to this, but I hate methods like to_s for toString. That stuff is going to drive me nuts. Anyway, our site has to support a lot of traffic, requires a lot of cron-like stuff built into the application, and we'll need to support relational databases and something like cassandra. Suggestions? -- 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.
