Rails over .NET, again 3
Michael Air of Hire’m posts about his decision to go with Rails over .NET.
So in the end, the infrastructure costs associated with .NET were too high which left me with Rails. Rails is a great solution, the framework is on of the nicest frameworks to work with which saves me a huge amount of work*, testing is integrated, linux hosting solutions are cheap and it’s scalable – people who argue Rails isn’t scalable are full of shit. There are guys like Robot co-op serving 2.5 million page views a day which means it can be done.
Have fun in RoR land. I'll be playing with this: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/13/442793.aspx
The ASP.NET is not a terrible platform for some applications, especially when your linking it into already pre-existing Microsoft .NET systems. I'm currently reviewing a 3rd edition book coming out for the latest developments in ASP.NET which i'll be discussing in comparison to rails and it's deployment on my blog, http://rubyonrailsblog.com - That won't be posted for another month or two, but it should be worth checking out.
Nice work you've done here by the way, keep it up!
Hey Brian and Jeff, thanks for the mention.
I'm very much in the same boat as you guys having done a lot of work with Microsoft technologies only to find that rails is much better suited in the majority of situations, in particular, for the what we need to achieve at Hire'm.