From: Sarah Tanembaum Date: 2005-01-07T16:36:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Re: [BOUNTY] Shopping cart ... Martin DeMello wrote: > Sarah Tanembaum wrote: > >>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? > > > The thing is, quite apart from the language, there are a bunch of fiddly > details you have to keep in mind when writing a shopping cart. My guess > is that no one in the ruby community felt it'd be sufficiently > fun/interesting to go through this particular exercise; the php > community being so much bigger meant it was likelier to include someone > with an interest in shopping carts. > > martin In other word, it is a bit tedious to do it in Ruby, whereas in PHP language(and its library) has more complete tools/utilities to do far fun/interesting projects/excercise - which include shopping cart, cataloging, content management, interactive database apps, etc... That is what I've been saying all along, but there are some reluctancy amongs Rubyist to admit this issues. Perhaps if we realize this problem, we can fix it and make Ruby the language of choice to do fun and quite interesting projects. Just my 2cents ..