egervari wrote: >> purely business grounds Rails is king. So your former bosses decision might >> not be a reflection as to the technical merits of Grails. > > When it comes to performance, how is Rails? Like if I were to design a > raw Spring/Hibernate app, which I'm not going to... but let's say I > did. What is the comparative performance with something like that, > even though it probably isn't a fair comparison.
Rails can perform quite well. Hulu and Ravelry are both known for being high-traffic Rails sites with excellent performance. > > Also, how well to do the tests run? Imagine a system with a few > thousand unit/integration tests. How long will it take to get all the > tests to run? It depends. On lots of things. > > Is it hard to build cron-like events in rails/ruby? Can I do that > inside of my app where it's hosted? In the java world, we have quartz > to do this (and probably some others). I believe there's a gem for this, though I've never tried to do it. > > Also, is it a good idea to use rails 3.0 even if it's in beta if the > app is not going to production for awhile? I wouldn't quite yet, particularly if you're not familiar with Rails or Ruby. > > Thanks! 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.
