From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2006-07-06T23:56:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Grails


Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> The funny thing is this: Ruby fans push Rails heavily, but what else
> does Ruby have going for it? Java didn't have Rails, but it had a ton
> of other frameworks and technologies.

Ruby has a lot going for it. An active, friendly user community.
Relatively clean, elegant syntax. Not a boatload of gotchas and
exceptions to the rule. And from what I have seen Ruby "fans" aren't
the ones pushing Rails as much as those bandwagoners who are out to
grab onto the coattails of the latest and greatest hyped technology.

Lately AJAX has been the buzzword. If you check out Ruby blogs,
newsgroup threads, mailing lists, and whatnot you will actually find
key Ruby contributors who question whether Rails' popularity will
outdistance and overshadow Ruby itself. They are not saying that Rails
will just help put Ruby's name out there for outsiders to check out.