Leon Rosenberg wrote: > A pretty simple document management system, for a small intranet, I'm > sure a typical application. It contains view and edit interfaces, > in the edit interface you can manage document vendors, document type > (like manual, presentation, advertisement material and so), and you > can upload document and assign properties to it: the type of the > document, the vendor of the document and some description. The access > is limited to restricted users. > If I have time in the next day or two I'll just do it and see. Without making the UI pretty I'd say we're talking 15-30 minutes, but that's assuming you don't have user access code that already exists.
The unit and functional tests that RoR creates for you would not fully exercise the system; if you added on another 30 minutes you could have very broad coverage. > In the view interface you are able to select documents by type, or > vendor or type and vendor, or get the full list. The view interface > can be seen under http://www2.anotheria.net/konet/cms/showPage? > The view side would take longer because I don't know Russian ;) The search part by itself would be about 5-10 minutes. http://www.italiannewjersey.com/ is a site that I _re_wrote using RoR as an experiment. I duplicated and extended the functionality in under 4 hours, including reproducing the style/layout/etc. and breaking up the presentation side into more manageable chunks. (RoR has "custom tags" but they're called "partials", as in a "partial template". Using them in an RHTML (our JSP) is still inside a scriptlet :( The vast majority of my time (about 3 hrs) was spent within the view side, as the source HTML was really crappy. Also, I had a working implementation to code from; if I had done it from scratch the view side would have taken me much longer as I really suck at design. There are some sections to the site that are not dynamic that should be; as an experiment I converted one static section to being dynamic and it took approximately 10 minutes without unit/functional tests. Also, it was my first "real" RoR application; a more knowledgeable RoR person would probably have been quicker. I am _far_ from an expert at RoR, but I get by. I've attempted to append a chunk of a comparison spreadsheet I made up; I doubt the formatting will work well so I apologize in advance. Caveats: - The J2EE version uses some weird older stuff the original app designers used, so the numbers may be inflated about 2-5% - The J2EE version includes no unit or functional tests; the RoR version has minimal tests (I have numbers for both) - The J2EE JavaScript includes a complete WYSIWIG HTML editor, the RoR version includes the complete prototype.js library which is not used. - The RoR version includes functionality not present in the J2EE version: three static sections were converted to dynamic (including the admin side) and there are more games being played with dynamic content inside the pages. HTH, Dave Lines Words Chars J2EE JSP 1775 6205 59142 JAVA 43 123 1561 HTM 106 413 4715 SHTML 1703 8305 93937 TEM 718 2201 28420 XML 17 26 619 JS 4868 17325 161706 Total 9230 34598 350100 Total-JS 4362 17273 188394 RoR RB 1107 2884 28196 RHTML 998 4440 44158 YML 40 107 927 JS 3958 10851 126538 Total 6103 18282 199819 Total-JS 2145 7431 73281 Total-JS-Test 1600 6182 60130 Total-JS-Test-Helpers 1579 6137 59743 RoR % of J2EE (All) 66% 53% 57% RoR % of J2EE (Just App) 36% 36% 32%
