{"id":2527,"date":"2005-05-17T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2005\/05\/17\/ruby-on-rails-orms-net-and-php\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T16:40:03","slug":"ruby-on-rails-orms-net-and-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2005\/05\/17\/ruby-on-rails-orms-net-and-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby on Rails, ORMs, .NET and PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of the developers out there know Ruby on Rails has been getting a lot<br \/>\nof buzz. In fact<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/items\/date\/2005\/01\/24\/ruby-on-rails\/\">I was<br \/>\ninitially pretty impressed<\/a> myself with how productive it seemed to be. Once<br \/>\nI looked into it deeper it became clear to me that for a number of reasons it<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t work for me in it&#8217;s present form.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ActiveRecord, the<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Object-relational_mapping\">ORM<\/a><br \/>\n\tportion of Rails is somewhat simplistic and limited as far as ORMs go. Don&#8217;t<br \/>\n\tget me wrong, for folks who have never used an ORM it ActiveRecord will be a<br \/>\n\tdramtic help for many small development projects.<\/li>\n<li>I have no urge to learn another language right now. As cool as it looks,<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\/\">Ruby<\/a> is not something I am heading<br \/>\n\tfor. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csharp.net\">C#<\/a> for the big stuff and<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\">PHP<\/a> for the little stuff. For now, that&#8217;s<br \/>\n\tall I need though if anything is vulnerable its PHP.<\/li>\n<li>The Rails mailing list is full of people having problems with Rails in<br \/>\n\tproduction. Memory leaks, fragility in the configuration of the machine,<br \/>\n\tsession conflicts and so on. While some people are suing Rails in large<br \/>\n\tscale public facing systems it seems like a big job to keep it running.<\/li>\n<li>There is a lot of kool-aid to be had in the Rails camp. Many questions<br \/>\n\tabout why Rails does what it does the way it does it are met with insults<br \/>\n\tand &quot;clearly you don&#8217;t &#8216;get it&#8217;&quot; stuff. Not what I need from a development<br \/>\n\tenvironment. Then you get to wade through all the hype about how they feel<br \/>\n\tlike they have invented magic fish or something.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t yet imagine swapping the huge support for .NET (<a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\">msdn<\/a>,<br \/>\n\tall the documentation, the corporate support and so on) to go to the small<br \/>\n\tRails community. Microsoft has huge resources, Rails has effectively none.<\/li>\n<li>Rails is a small framework for developing certain types of web<br \/>\n\tapplications. it is not a platform. Similar frameworks are and can be built<br \/>\n\ton top of .NET.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In effect what Rails has done is important, but more in what it has shown as<br \/>\nmethods than as an inherently superior framework. Rails has given the developer<br \/>\nof small websites a simple way to get specific things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A trivial way to create<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.rubyonrails.com\/rails\/show\/CRUD\">CRUD<\/a> pages for<br \/>\n\tsimple databases. (create, read, update, delete)<\/li>\n<li>A simple template language.<\/li>\n<li>A simple ORM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now you can just fire it up and get the most important pieces of the<br \/>\nenterprise style frameworks with very little effort. This is good. It will<br \/>\nintroduce lots of people who were without those things to them and how they can<br \/>\nhelp. However it is worth remembering that in all these areas Rails is dependant<br \/>\nont he fact that they have simplified the problem space so dramatically that it<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t really applicable in a more general use.<\/p>\n<p>Rails is a great tool if you have to whip something out fast that happens to<br \/>\nfit it&#8217;s problem space well. It is probably a nice competitor to certain<br \/>\nsituations I might use PHP in. But a Java or .NET killer? Nope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of the developers out there know Ruby on Rails has been getting a lot of buzz. In fact I was initially pretty impressed myself with how productive it seemed to be. 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