From: Mike Harris Date: 2006-11-11T05:42:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Rails vs. Asp.Net politics Leslie Viljoen wrote: > On 11/10/06, Scott wrote: > >> If you'll still be developing and deploying on a Windows box, you can >> use RubyCLR to leverage your existing C# classes. > > > I have looked at RubyCLR but it seems really green. I have not gotten > it working yet because last time I tried I couldn't compile it and > this time it's not working on Ruby 1.8.4 yet. I don't think I can > actually propose it for our projects yet, but I am eagerly watching > it. > >> 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? > > > Timeframe is about 6 months according to marketing, although our > initial estimate puts it at a bit over a year. The faster we can go > the better for us (obviously). A good question is which choice would > make the development quickest. Internationalization is not required > but may be after a few releases. > > If we do the spikes, we'll start with Ruby and see how the others > adapt. If there are serious problems we'll investigate further, or > we'll just start design. > > > > >> 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 >> >> >> > > For RubyCLR, have you tried the gem? I installed the gem a couple weeks ago, and everything worked flawlessly.