From: Scott <bauer.mail@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T03:10:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails vs. Asp.Net politics

If you'll still be developing and deploying on a Windows box, you can
use RubyCLR to leverage your existing C# classes.

What is the timeframe for the project?  I think you'd be much better
off spending the beginning of the project getting everyone up to speed
on RoR than doing concurrent development, since one team will have
wasted 2 weeks of work when the decision is made.  Is
internationalization support required?

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
>
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> than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always
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