From: sur max <sur.max@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T22:44:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails vs. Asp.Net politics

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go for Rails only !!
Rails is evolving a lot, i guess the two guys can easily be satisfied if u
just show them
a live little let say a small blogging application with some essential
features.

On 11/10/06, Luke Melia <lkmlists@lukemelia.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>
>
>


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