From: "juan pedro meriño" <juapdiaz@...>
Date: 2006-11-11T13:34:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails vs. Asp.Net politics

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hi
how i create a game a ruby?
what's your msn?



2006/11/10, James Cunningham <jameshcunningham@gmail.com>:
>
> 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
>
>
>

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