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Enterprise ruby applications
Dan North
9/4/2003 1:45:00 PM
Hi all.
I'm looking for evidence to present Ruby as a suitable language for
"enterprise" development. By that I mean building large, robust
solutions, typically interfacing with legacy systems, often with an
asynchronous and/or distributed flavour.
The reason for this is that I work for a software development
consultancy where I predominantly use Java and J2EE (or C# and .Net) in
my day job, and Ruby for all my hobby projects. And I'd love to be using
Ruby for "proper" projects too! I am lucky enough that if I can put a
good case together, there is a chance someone will want to hear it, so
that's what I'm going to do.
The sort of thing I am after is:
- stories of any large-scale Ruby project successes
- projects/utilities that would help enable these sorts of projects (I'm
already looking on RAA but any pointers would be useful)
- reasons why a client might choose Ruby if it were simply a choice of
which language would best deliver a project.
I'm happy to take any of this out of ruby-talk if people think it OT -
I'm just interested in presenting a fair case for Ruby. I don't want to
over-hype it but I do want to know if it can do more than the (hugely
productive) stuff I already know about.
I'm not trolling - I don't want any "Ruby is better than xxx because..."
otherwise it just descends into flaming.
Also, I'm a huge fan of TDD and I've already been using the Test::Unit
stuff extensively and with very pleasing results (very simple code base
doing quite complicated things). So any thoughts along XP/TDD lines are
more than welcome.
Cheers,
--
Dan North
http://www.though...
2 Answers
Tobias Reif
9/4/2003 2:53:00 PM
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Dan North wrote:
> I''m looking for [...]:
> - stories of any large-scale Ruby project successes
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Rea...
"NASA Langley Research Center uses Ruby to conduct simulations [...]" etc
Tobi
--
http://www.pink...
Dan North
9/4/2003 3:19:00 PM
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Thanks Tobias.
This is exactly the sort of stuff I''m looking for. I am also very
interested in people''s anecdotal experience, and any advice about what
does and doesn''t work in the Rubiverse. ("I miss the refactoring support
from IDEA/Eclipse", "you really have to develop test-first because of
the absence of compile-time type checking").*
Cheers,
Dan
* btw. the sources of these comments are fans of Ruby - their overall
tone was extremely positive.
Tobias Reif wrote:
> Dan North wrote:
> > I''m looking for [...]:
> > - stories of any large-scale Ruby project successes
>
>
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Rea...
> "NASA Langley Research Center uses Ruby to conduct simulations [...]" etc
>
> Tobi
>
--
Dan North
http://www.though...
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