On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:18:22 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Ruby on Rails is gaining momentum.
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>| Since its first release by David Heinemeier Hansson in middle 2004,
>| Ruby on Rails has enjoyed strong positive trend both in the open
>| source and web development community. This trend can be easily
>| noticed in Google Trend's statistics.
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> http://www.railsonwave.it/2006/12/12/ruby-on-rails-is-gaining-momentum
It's not really Ruby that's got peoples attention, it's rails in
particular. But Rails is really only half a solution. It's great for
people that simply don't care about the data model. They have data, and
they want to store it in a database, but don't really care how.
Most corporations, however, have very large and complex data models they
require you to use. Ruby does nothing for this sort of development. Even
most product oriented web applications have specific data models that they
document and publish. Rails doesn't help there.
Rails doesn't help when you want to create normalized data that doesn't
duplicate data. Rails doesn't help when you want to utilize data from
multiple, often non-heterogenous sources.
It's a great tool for certain kinds of sites, but it's certainly not for
everyone, and it's not general purpose.
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