2 posts tagged “rubyonrails”

I found a blog post this morning about why Ruby on Rails will not become mainstream.

I'm not sure I agree with all the points, but I do think that not having a good IDE is a problem. At least for me, coming from the Java side, I miss being able to debug in my editor, and to use auto-complete when I'm using slightly unfamiliar parts of the API.

Sure, TextMate is a fine product, and I'm still very excited about Ruby on Rails, but I'm not convinced it will dethrone Java.

I'm trying to be less enthusiastic about Rails, but even after a few days it still seems very exciting.

The last couple of days I've spent a good amount of time cleaning up Hibernate XDoclet tags and removing redundant method implementations, and a lot of that work wouldn't be necessary if Java frameworks used "configuration by convention."

Sure, projects like AppFuse make getting a Java app running almos as easy as Rails, but it's just not the same.