Alex,

I'd love to chat someday about your experiences with Rails @ SCE.  I'm a
project manager over in your sister company over Rancho Bernardo.  You are
obviously much further along than we are, but I'd like to share your success
with the others here at SEL.

-Kenneth

On 3/1/07, Alex Boster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello, just wanted to introduce myself.  I was planning on coming to
my first meeting tonight, but now may not be able to make it.

I'm a Perl guy who recently converted to Ruby on Rails in December
after we gave up on Catalyst (the Perl "Rails-like" knockoff) for our
project at work (I work for Sony Computer Entertainment America in
Sorrento Mesa).  We are using Rails to build a web plus xml-rpc api
application server for internal use.  It's quite a large project and
we have only 3.5 developers.  Rails has been letting us work about
twice as fast as we would have been able to in Perl.  (Not to mention
I'm VERY happy working in Ruby...)

The main perspective I might be able to bring is where we are doing
"enterprise"-y things that are on the edge of what Rails can do
(indeed, we have to NOT stay in the Rails paradigm occasionally).  We
are using Oracle, and using stored procedures and views, must provide
an XML-RPC interface for people who will need to have an api into our
app from Java.  The application itself is relatively complex with
about 60-70 tables, plus some views and some non-database backed
models in the app.

I also have been to the Pragmatic Studio guys' three day Rails Studio
class and will be going to the Advanced Rails Studio.  These are
given by some of the authors of the relevant Pragmatic Programmer
books and the class I attended was top notch.  That's something else
I can talk about (disclaimer: I'm just enthusiastic about the class
and get nothing for referring people to it ... )

Alex Boster

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