From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2005-03-22T02:55:51+09:00 Subject: Re: Support for 10x Productivity Increase with Rails! Hello Glenn, GP> Curt Hibbs wrote: >> >> Bruce Tate and his partner Justin Gehtland were engaged by a client to >> replace an web app that had originally taken the company a year to develop. >> Justin took 4 months to reimplement this web app using Spring and Hibernate. >> Bruce characterized Spring/Hibernate as among the most productive frameworks >> available in the Java space. >> >> Recently, Justin decided to re-implement with Ruby on Rails. Bruce said that >> this took a total of 5 days (Justin's weblog reported 4 days for 80% >> completion so, presumably, 5 days is for the whole thing)! GP> The devil's advocate would ask, how much of that first four months was GP> devoted to Justin developing his expertise in the application itself? GP> Once you've mastered an application's logic, you have a distinct GP> advantage when re-implementing it in another environment. Correct. And you can implement the first 90% of an application in 10% of the time you need for a 100% implementation. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's