In his blog posting titled "Is Rails Ready for Prime Time?", Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers shares some interesting thoughts on how to introduce Rails in your company. He recognizes that Rails is not always the right solution, and some situations may very well benefit from using J2EE or other frameworks....
O'Reilly Network has posted an interview with David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails. It's an interesting read and covers some of the reasons for writing the Rails framework. Apparently David has done significant development with both PHP (which he calls quick-n-dirty), as well as Java (which he calls slow-n-clean). With Rails, he was aiming for quick-n-clean, and it seems like he's succeeded....
If you are a Java programmer and you're interested in Ruby, you should read this presentation about 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby. This blog entry also has some nice Ruby information for Java developers. About the most dangerous thing about Ruby is how more elegant and less verbose it is....
The final version 0.7 of the Eclipse WebTools Platform (WTP) was released a few days ago. I've been using the recent milestone releases for a few months now, and they've already been very stable and functional. If you're using Eclipse 3.1 or planning on upgrading to 3.1, I highly recommend that you install WTP as well....
IBM published a nice article on their developerWorks website that compares Ruby on Rails with J2EE. To be more precise, the article compares the complete Ruby on Rails stack to that of a typical Java web application that combines J2EE with the open source Struts and Hibernate frameworks. This is a very valid comparison (Spring and other frameworks would be valid alternatives as well), as both stacks provide similar functionality....