Comments on: Should one learn Ruby on Rails ?

By: flnotes

flnotes — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:16:12 +0000

@ragrawal
the learning curve is there because you have to learn Ruby and the whole gamut of web development to use ROR effectively. As for CakePHP, it is a good framework and its use in projects should be justified from the time and effort perspective considering you can develope web applications using php itself. btw learning ROR should a good excuse to learn Ruby.

@Jhon Siemens
there are different methods to scale the ROR applications and if performance is the main concern then Merb is a good option. In http://www.rubyinside.com (http://ruby.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/find-jobs) and http://www.railsinside.com you will find job posting related to ruby and rails.

By: ragrawal

ragrawal — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:45:00 +0000

Have you looked at CakePHP. I tried using Ruby on Rails but as you said it has a learning curve and I didn’t see much benefit once I found CakePHP replicates almost all the functionality that ROR has to provide.

By: John Siemens

John Siemens — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:46:33 +0000

Learning Ruby on Rails is actually a poor investment of one’s time, when one considers:

RoR is notoriously slow, and does not scale due to its lack of support for multiple concurrent threads.

There is no way to execute prepared statements from Ruby, only dynamic SQL statements, which further impedes performance.

To get a lot of the magic that RoR purports to provide, you have to give up things like composite keys and referential integrity in the database.

There are hardly any paying Ruby or RoR jobs available.