From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-04-09T22:39:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Welcome to our (ruby-talk ML) You are added automatically On Apr 9, 2005 4:52 AM, GK. Sezhian wrote: > 1. Has anyone of you tried rubyonrails web app in your > protyping/production? Dozens -- if not hundreds -- of people have done this. Check out the Rails website. > 2. What is the adv Ruby gives over python ...on googling I found > an article stating just they are philosophically different?? Essentially. That philosophical difference leads to a number of practical differences, though, which will matter for your own preference. > 3. OO becomes a overhead in some cases when a small coding stuff > can achieve that. Clarify. Ruby doesn't force you to code in an OO style. Don't think in terms of Java-OO, because it's not remotely the same. Ruby's OO is truly transparent and fully integrated. > 4. I have just gone thro some perfomance results which rendered > Ruby to be very slow is it? There are lies, damn lies, statistics, and then there are benchmarks. Ruby is slower than other languages for some tasks, faster than other languages for some tasks. Generally, it is more pleasant to develop in than other languages, and is faster for *developing*. > 5. Does Ruby have strong user groups in term of count like python? There are more Python users than Ruby. But the number of Ruby users is increasing. > 6. Can I get some reference where ruby has Been used in large > /criical projects? Look on RubyGarden for RealWorldRuby. > 7. How is Ruby's performance with huge DB resultsets.. Probably very good. > 8. How about the DB features supported by Ruby..like Rowsets I > java ...Transactional settings ...etc Sorry, I'm not clear on what you're after. > 9. What is the newest release in Ruby world like library, new > language features,tools ... Clarify. > 10. the end statement in ruby is bit tricky will it be changed ??? There's nothing tricky about the end statement. It will not be changed. > 11.Template driven programming can reduces the developing time > right? Then what is the need of Ruby creating a whole set of > new language form scratch ..i heard there are more than 200 odd > languages available (programming languages) .. Here I mean to > say what is the advantage of Ruby over grrovy/template > programming.. Sorry, but I don't know what you're talking about here. (1) Ruby is over ten years old (it was first released in '93). (2) Ruby has its place. (3) What do you mean by "template-driven programming." (4) Ruby reduces development time, too, by being a higher level language without the artificial restrictions of statically typed languages, which is where templates (C++ style) make sense. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca