From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T17:41:07+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

From: "Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>


>
> If the edict goes forth to use Java, I suppose if you're convinced that
> you can deliver something quicker in Ruby than a few people coding in Java
> can deliver it in that you could start a parallel effort to try to beat
> them....  but you'd probably have to be working on it on your own time.
>
> Phil


Alternatively, take the approach that you'll save time in the long run by doing
a Ruby prototype first.  That's what I did for my current project.  My manager
(a very reasonable guy but fearful of company politics - correctly so) turned a
blind eye until the deadline was looming, then insisted I start work in Java.
He and I know that the project is better for having done a working prototype
first.  And then you get that nice chance to start from scratch.

Coding Java is much easier when you're thinking in Ruby, but quite frustrating
nonetheless...

Gavin