From: Piers Harding <piers@...>
Date: 2006-12-12T05:07:07+09:00
Subject: Re: What?s ruby on rails for?

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Hi - for the Portuguese speakers there is http://www.balanceonrails.com.br/
 and a book that Fabio Akita wrote - maybe this would be of some help.

 Cheers.


On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:05:05AM +0900, Marcello wrote:
> Hi,
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> I?m a Delphi programmer,tht was once a clipper programmer,that was
> once a Cobol programmer.
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> So,It is time to change again.
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> By now I would prefer to become  a farmer instead of using .NET,Java
> seems to be a five heads monster.
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> I?ve heard that Ruby on Rails is much easier to learn than Java.
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> But what are the cons?
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> Is it good for ERP development,I?ve heard something about it does not
> supportin conpound primary keys and two phase commits(Altough I?ve
> never done that before).
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> Is it too buggy?How many users there are around the world?
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> I?ve never seen a Ruby Job in Brazil,But I?m almost 40 years old
> now,It is time to take the risk and learn something that will last more
>  10 or 15 years(Is it Ruby?)
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> What books do you recomend for a beginner?
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> Marcello
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