I'm on the same situation, I know both Java and Ruby, and I am looking for a language that I could use both for administration scripting and web sites,
I tried a little bit both of Grails and Rails Rails is easer to use, but it looks like LOTS of plugins/gems are no more compatibles with the lasts versions of Ruby (1.9.2) and Rails (3.0.1) (ex: the Qt4 binding for ruby), but I hope this will change with time :) Another thing that I don't really like about Rails is that I don't feel like if I had control on the web stack, most of things are "magic" and I don't always understand what it does on the background... But rails has a perfect caching system and clustering way (memcached!), it's also very easy to profile and debug. And the most important: There is a HUGE community ! Grails also has some advantages, it's template engine if perfect (GSP) (I like it really more than ERB, tag based templates are more clean), and it includes ACEGI (the perfect authentication engine ;p) but the caching system is really really poor (if not inexistent) and it's harder to cluster (Terracotta), there is almost nobody on the IRC channel (nobody speaks or ask questions) and the most important thing: GRAILS LOVES RAM! (~500MB of RES memory for a simple blank web site deployment..), another thing non related to grails, for system scripting, the full interpreter is really slow to start, and grails don't have access to low level API like symlinks or chmod things).. About Java itself, it have the advantages to be the language to use to extends many big softwares like Zimbra or Alfresco What do you think about that ? Thank you -- 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.
