From: Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T02:41:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Re: [BOUNTY] Shopping cart ...

Kaspar Schiess wrote:
> Hello Sarah,
> 
> 
>>Is it because Ruby a) can't handle such application, b) not ready for 
>>that type of apps because of performance and/or security, c) too hard
>>to implement(perhaps PHP is better for this type of apps), d) no one
>>is willing to share the scripts , e) or any that I can't think of.
> 
> 
> I somehow do get the feeling that you have been biased negativly towards
> Ruby by something that happend to you. Is it the lack of documentation
> in some parts ? Or the lack of support ? 
> 
> Ruby is in some ways more of a 'real language' than PHP, where support
> for a lot of common tasks is compiled in the language. Ruby must include
> these in the form of libraries, and that in turn implies some
> difficulties when installing, although projects like RPA and rubygems do
> facilitate that process enormously. 
> 
> More to the subject, I believe such an application does not exist
> because it is too easy to build your own version of it. Integrating a
> third party shopping cart with a Rails application is probably bound to
> be more difficult than just coding it up yourself. A shopping cart has
> many dependencies to the web application framework and thus it is not
> completely trivial to program a framework-less version of a shopping
> cart  as the first post asks for. 
> 
> I would need to see a few (html) screenshots of such an application to
> completely understand what is asked for here. 
> 
> yours, 
> kaspar
> 
> hand manufactured code - www.tua.ch/ruby
> 
> 
> 
Just to rephrase it, since Web Application such as shopping cart has 
many dependencies, Ruby is not ready for such application. Unlike PHP, 
Ruby lack many dependencies to build a descent web/graphical 
application. Is correct statement?