From: James Cunningham <jameshcunningham@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T10:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails vs. Asp.Net politics

On 2006-11-10 17:54:50 -0500, "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> said:

> On 11/10/06, Nithia Govender <nithiaji@guruhut.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 10 Nov 2006, at 14:23, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
>> 
>> > On 11/10/06, Peter Hickman <peter@semantico.com> wrote:
>> >> 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#.
>> >>
>> >> Well you could sell it as a good CV move for them. In the end they
>> >> will
>> >> know C# and Ruby and Rails. Got to be a good thing if they ever
>> >> want to
>> >> move.
>> >>
>> >> If you already have C# I'm not too sure of the value of adding
>> >> ASP.NET
>> >> to your CV.
>> >
>> > I think so, although in the backwater of South Africa, very few people
>> > have ever heard of Ruby or Rails! I have yet to see a single book here
>> > on either subject.
>> 
>> All I can say is that you're not looking at my bookshelf :) From
>> where I sit in my South African backwater of a study, I see two Ruby
>> books, plus a PDF or two. In my work environment, most people have
>> heard of Ruby and Rails. Most view Rails with a certain scepticism,
>> especially given that we do most of our work in Java. Looking at the
>> scary complexity of many of the apps we produce for our customers, I
>> can see why Rails, with it's "constraints are good" philosophy, may
>> not be the best framework for every Web app. I must admit that I
>> haven't done much work in Rails, but for me Ruby itself is a
>> beautiful, elegant language that is a joy to program in.
> 
> Wow, I have searched this backwater as best as I could to find other
> Ruby programmers here! I also search every bookstore I go into for
> Ruby books - where did you get them? I have many, but all ordered from
> overseas.
> 
> Would you agree with the idea that Ruby/Rails on your CV might be
> better than ASP.NET (if you already have C# there) - in South Africa?
> 
> Also, where do you work? Guruhut.com doesn't resolve to a www server
> right now...

Try here, as a guess:

http://www.guruhut.co.za/

Best,
James