Comments on: ScreenSteps Live: A Case Study on Ruby on Rails – Part 1 http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/ A blog about removing the ambiguity of your online communications Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:10:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Greg DeVore http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-304 Greg DeVore Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:52:40 +0000 http://bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/21/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/#comment-304 <p>@TL - I just posted it. Hopefully it has some good info in their for you. If there are specific things you would like to know about our Rails experience let me know and I will try to address them.</p> @TL – I just posted it. Hopefully it has some good info in their for you. If there are specific things you would like to know about our Rails experience let me know and I will try to address them.

]]> By: Greg DeVore http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Greg DeVore Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:24:33 +0000 http://bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/21/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/#comment-300 <p>@TL - Thanks for the reminder. I've had a draft for awhile. I just need to finish up. I will get it out soon.</p> @TL – Thanks for the reminder. I’ve had a draft for awhile. I just need to finish up. I will get it out soon.

]]> By: TL http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-301 TL Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:50:24 +0000 http://bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/21/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/#comment-301 <p>Wow...it's been awhile since the last article. </p> <p>Where's part two...I'm VERY interested in the rest of your story! :-)</p> <p>~TL</p> Wow…it’s been awhile since the last article.

Where’s part two…I’m VERY interested in the rest of your story! :-)

~TL

]]> By: Greg DeVore http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Greg DeVore Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:28:12 +0000 http://bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/21/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/#comment-303 <p>Nick- I did look briefly at a couple of alternatives - mainly php. Like I said, I had never done a web app before, and when we started I had no intentions of doing the programming myself.</p> <p>Our decision to go with Rails was mainly due to the "buzz" surrounding Rails. To be honest it wasn't an extremely informed decision.</p> <p>But, I can say now, after having done this project and also after having done some PHP programming since then, that if I had it to do over again I would still do it in Rails.</p> <p>The real key for me has been how easy it has been to quickly iterate using Rails. PHP seemed a bit more cumbersome to me in that regard. PHP has a lot of advantages. Deploying Rails for the first time (which I will talk about in another post) was a complete nightmare. But overall I much prefer the Ruby language and the Rails framework to anything I have found in PHP (but, to be fair, my experience in PHP is very limited).</p> <p>I have no experience with Perl, Python, .NET, etc. so I couldn't speak intelligently about those. Also, I haven't looked at alternatives in Ruby such as Merb so I couldn't speak to that either.</p> Nick- I did look briefly at a couple of alternatives – mainly php. Like I said, I had never done a web app before, and when we started I had no intentions of doing the programming myself.

Our decision to go with Rails was mainly due to the “buzz” surrounding Rails. To be honest it wasn’t an extremely informed decision.

But, I can say now, after having done this project and also after having done some PHP programming since then, that if I had it to do over again I would still do it in Rails.

The real key for me has been how easy it has been to quickly iterate using Rails. PHP seemed a bit more cumbersome to me in that regard. PHP has a lot of advantages. Deploying Rails for the first time (which I will talk about in another post) was a complete nightmare. But overall I much prefer the Ruby language and the Rails framework to anything I have found in PHP (but, to be fair, my experience in PHP is very limited).

I have no experience with Perl, Python, .NET, etc. so I couldn’t speak intelligently about those. Also, I haven’t looked at alternatives in Ruby such as Merb so I couldn’t speak to that either.

]]> By: Nick Lo http://www.bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Nick Lo Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:27:13 +0000 http://bluemangolearning.com/blog/2008/05/21/screensteps-live-a-case-study-on-ruby-on-rails-part-1/#comment-302 <p>In your next post I'd be interested to know why you went with Ruby on Rails and if you looked at any alternatives.</p> In your next post I’d be interested to know why you went with Ruby on Rails and if you looked at any alternatives.

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