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yay Dec 1, 2005

Is this a linux type open source thing?

deanh77 Dec 1, 2005

it is open source and runs on linux (and windows, and mac, probably others). rails is an open-source web framework written in Ruby. And ruby is an open-source language (written in C)

yay Dec 1, 2005

bah yeah ill pass. this web dev stuff is starting to bore me

iwz iwz ·

dude, you have to check this out. watch the 15 minute video on www.rubyonrails.com

yay yayOG 2004 ·

Ok I checked it out.
Ok this is my obviously premature biased opinion. VS.NET blows this away.

iwz iwz ·

VisualStudio.NET? yeah?

yay yayOG 2004 ·

Yeah. C# + .NET + ASP
I don't know tough to say, I work with VS fair amount. Maybe VS.NET doesn't neccesarily have the ORM strength yet (soon to come if not already in ObjectSpaces which is gorgeous), but I use DTM for this and it works incredibly well.

A .NET app in development feels more like a standard application, and has this same focus on removing page states and automatically binding databases as it looks for Ruby on Rails in the demo. I guess the fully integrated IDE is what takes the cake for me, I get tired of figuring out what scripts do what, especially when I don't work on the same technologies or projects for more than a month at a time.

Plus a library like .NET is full, extensive, simplistic. MS moves it forward, sometimes standards move backwards

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