From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T09:49:34+09:00
Subject: Re: rails vs Java Struts

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:04:48 +0900, Felipe Malta de Oliveira wrote

> 
> That's about it.The features I am interested in a framework are:
> 
> - Validation of html forms
> - Authentication
> - Some kind of template mechanism, for sending the e-mails and the reports
> - Some kind of clock mechanism, like Quartz for Java, to deal with 
> the starting and ending time of the session.

There is a relative wealth of frameworks for web development in Ruby these 
days.  Some are more actively used or developed with than others.  I'm doing 
some work on the

http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?WebFrameworks

page this evening to add a few more of the frameworks that seem to have some 
usage base, and maybe do a bit of fleshing out on the information for some 
of the entries.  Take a look.
 
> Is it possible to learn Ruby and do it all, alone and single-handed, 
> in just one month and 15 days? I have 1 to 2 hours per day to spend 
> on this from monday to friday and the whole saturday and sunday 
> until the succesful completion (or failure) of the project.

Yes, it is possible, IMHO.  Ruby isn't a hard language to get the hang of, 
IMHO.  My first Ruby project was a moderately large site/app (about 16k 
lines of code and HTML) that I did in two weeks using IOWA.  I had been 
tinkering with Ruby for a few months before, so it's not quite like your 
situation, but....it's possible.

My suggestion is to take a few hours and go through some of the 
documentation and tutorials on a few of the frameworks and see if one of 
them appeals to you.  Then take it from there.


Kirk Haines