From: James Britt Date: 2006-07-26T11:45:23+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Nitro/Og 0.31.0 Jamey Cribbs wrote: > Jeff Pritchard wrote: > >> >From the rubyforge summary: >> Nitro is an efficient, yet simple engine for developing professional >> Web Applications using the Ruby language. >> >> Guess it is a rails wannabe. >> > > I personally have not used Nitro, and I have no idea how many hours the > Nitro team has spent working on the project, however, I am pretty sure > that the amount of work put into Nitro warrants that it deserves to be > referred to as something more than "a Rails wannabe". > > I don't mean to come across as critical of your statement; I just felt > like this should be said. I've built applications in both Rails and Nitro. They're different enough that both are worth knowing. I believe that Nitro was underway at the same time as Rails was getting going; both are frameworks extracted from actual applications built to solve real-world problems. The projects may or may not have copied ideas from one another (though I assume all good projects steal from everything they can), but neither is a wannabe. I find that Nitro lends itself to a different way of thinking about Web and application development than Rails, and Og (the O/R part of Nitro) is better suited for certain data and object persistence needs than ActiveRecord. The best part, of course, is that it's not an either/or choice, and if you're serious about Web development in Ruby you owe it to yourself to spend some time with Nitro, IOWA, Rails, and Wee, for starters. Ruby gives you choices. Pick the best tool for the job. -- James Britt http://www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation http://www.artima.com/rubycs/ - The Journal By & For Rubyists http://www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff http://refreshingcities.org - Design, technology, usability