From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T00:42:02+09:00
Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby

On 3/27/07, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> All of these are completely different, and refer to wildly disparate
> aspects of development, deployment and use.
>
> This is my point, in a roundabout sort of way - while it's very easy to
> pick on any one of these and say "because Ruby doesn't meet this
> particular requirement out of the box, it's not worth looking at any
> further," that's to ignore the successes that people are having with
> Ruby in otherwise traditional environments, as alluded to by the OP.

You have also hit on another anti-Ruby point - that Ruby should be
able to fully replace Java/C/.Net i.e. it is a requirement for enterprisey
Ruby.

Nobody considers that you can mix and match technology - that
you could get a simple web app interface to whatever working with
Rails or Camping on top of your big Java or .NET application
server.

Its certainly not Sun, IBM or Microsoft that are getting upset that
you want to program the agile ends of your app in Ruby. You
want to run your Rails apps on top of Glassfish and avail of
5/6/7 nines uptime and global transactions? Now you can.