Hi, On 20 May 2010 08:10, egervari <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, are there any really unbiased comparisons between rails and > grails, and to which each framework is better suited for? Having worked with both extensively, though a lot more with Grails as of lately, I dare say that it all boils down to a matter of personal taste. There is no way to objectively say which one's better. Each has its own advantages and gotchas. There are things which are very easy with Grails (as in 'install plugin and your done') like implementing login facilities or running jobs. However, there are also things that are equally easy with Rails which are not so easy with Grails. At my company we mostly use Grails and for very good reasons but there sure are just as many good reasons for using Rails. > 1) The tests take forever to run This is a well-known problem. The cause for this is JVM startup time. For the time being Grails offers an interactive mode that starts a JVM and allows you to run commands like test-app without incurring a JVM startup penalty for each run. Besides, the Grails team is also working on improving testing in various ways for the next major release. > 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. This used to be a problem with 1.0.x and 1.1.x but shouldn't really occur anymore nowadays. At least it doesn't for us and we do a lot of Grails development -- Best regards, Björn Wilmsmann -- 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.
