Anyone used ruby on rails????

[KiwiDexter]

Just wondering how people would compare it to php. Have had a little play with it, but then got caught up doing some php stuff to upgrade a product to version 5

[bgmacaw]

I'm probably going to be evaluating it soon myself, weighing it against using .NET Mono, Java, PHP, and Erlang for developing web service clients for Linux systems.

[KiwiDexter]

About where I'm at bg. Still developing using PHP but they keep telling me you can really nail things in much fewer lines of code with ROR. Note the books on the technology are starting to appear in my country, so must be building up a head of steam.

[Hack]

You might find this interesting to read.

[DeadEyes]

I had a brief fling with RoR but I never got into any great depth. For a small project starting from scratch (including the DB) it would appear to be great.
There is a migration feature that allows you to specify your DB schema in Ruby this allows you to add tables columns etc by running a Ruby script but you can also rollback to previous version just as easily.
RoR does however seem to be very picky about how the tables are set up. Most of the time your going to be working with an existing DB, but I never got around to looking at how well RoR deals with that.
There also appears to be a number of stories going around that RoR dosn't scale very well, but it is still relativly new so this is to be expected.

[dclamp]

i would like to try ror some time. Just to extend my knowledge.. Sound easy

[KiwiDexter]

You might find this interesting to read.

Cheers

Just been told my company are putting me through an MCSD program in the New York so am effectively down to learning .net for the foreseeable future ;(

[Pino]

I used ROR for a while the plugin for eclipse is good. Didnt like it though too much though!

Wasnt for me, but its supposed to be very quick at getting a web application up there.

[KiwiDexter]

Sitepoint are giving away their beginners intro book to RoR btw, limited offer, looks like 2.0 is nearly upon us.

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...94#post3577294