From: Luke Melia <lkmlists@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T22:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails vs. Asp.Net politics

How about picking a small slice of the app and doing two week-long  
spikes, one with each technology? That should be enough to let you  
have a more informed group discussion than you can now. Hopefully,  
consensus will emerge. If not, you can make your decision but your  
team will at least feel their ideas were given a shot.

Luke

On Nov 10, 2006, at 6:50 AM, Leslie Viljoen wrote:

> I have the deciding vote in a new (rather large) web app we need to
> develop. I am experienced in Rails, but the other 2 guys on the team
> know only C# and very basic Ruby. About 25% of the app could benefit
> from existing classes written in C#.
>
> So I could force everyone to learn ROR, which they may or may not
> thank me for, or I could learn ASP.NET. I know C# well but have never
> used ASP.NET.
>
> I doubt execution speed would be a factor, since the bottleneck will
> be in the database and there would be very few concurrent users. We'd
> make a lot of use of Ajax.
>
> So is there any advice? Anything I should take into account? Has
> anyone done large projects in both environments?
>
> Les
>
> -- 
> Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather
> than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always
> astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from
> our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the
> contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has
> not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
>
> - Prokhor Zakharov
>