Comments on: Four Ways Ruby on Rails Can Help You

By: Miraç

Miraç — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:12:08 +0000

Hi;
Thanks for the post.
I don’t use Ruby as the primary language.
Because few job opportunities in Turkey.
Do you have job opportunities for the United States and Japan?

By: Aarthi Raj

Aarthi Raj — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:03:57 +0000

Wow… this simply,clearly explains y one should use ruby on rails….

By: Ashok

Ashok — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:40:42 +0000

Hi,

You have written a good article and have done some good research.

Thanks,

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:44:05 +0000

There’s no doubt that RoR is a great way to go, but depending on your needs PHP still might be a good solution. We’ve done a few awesome projects with RoR and prefer the view convention over anything else. Nice post BTW!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:20:21 +0000

I work in RoR as a designer and prefer it over many other options. I’ve worked in PHP but mostly with systems like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc. I love the views convention and find any erb snippets of code really easy to work with and to understand. I think the separation of code is totally fine.

Do the people barking at RoR and trying to bury it know it as well as they know their PHP or other languages? How can you make a fair assessment without comparing equal knowledge?

As far as the comment on keeping on the cutting edge, I agree with Eric J. Gruber, welcome to web 2.0. The next generation of the web and the current economy requires more intelligent developers and designers. You need multiple weapons in your arsenal.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:30:54 +0000

Phil,

ERBs do no promote clean code. Take a look at Apache Wicket for an example of a Java based MVC framework that does not allow the mixing of markup and code. In Wicket you have clean html files and you have java code in java classes manipulating elements in the htlm.

There are many things I like about ror. I only wish it would provide for the separation of markup and code as does Wicket.

Many one day it will and then I will give it another look-over.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:11:05 +0000

ROR would be close to perfect if it provided an alternative to erb files which mix markup and code and allowed for a separation of concerns – markup only html files.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:05:51 +0000

@DemoGeek – Yeah, Phusion Passenger (www.modrails.com) check it out!

By: DemoGeek

DemoGeek — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:23:42 +0000

I’ve tried twice to dwell into RoR with determination but ended up backing out given the deployment overheads. Are there any easy deployment solutions to a RoR app other than Capistrano?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:14:09 +0000

Php on Trax rocks the house for a php alt to Rails. It has many advanced features of rails built into it. Check it out. http://www.phpontrax.com