So, umh, Ruby on Rails is awesome. Wow. Really wow. Even if you have no interest in using it, watch the ten minute intro video. Wow. It really works just like the video.
Holy wow.
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I agree - its pretty good stuff. (I've wanted something based on Groovy along similar lines for a while). The templating side of things is not hugely different to things available for Java; the biggest gap appears to be the ActiveRecord thing. We still don't have a good API for this kinda thing in Java-land. I was hoping SDO could be it (just like ADO is the thing on .Net which works in a similar way). Maybe in 2 years JDBC 4 might catch up :)
Thanks, Brian. It's such a rush to hear people extend their enthusiasm to the project. Really inspires me to push the envelope even further.
http://jroller.com/page/hammett
but what's the point of bringing a rails like framework to Java (or any mainstream language)? Rails rocks and ruby rocks. If you'd like it, use it as it is :-)
I'd like to second Hammet on that notion. There has been talk of doing Active Record in TCL, Python on Rails, and Rails.NET. Eventually, all the project initiators opted out of doing a rewrite and converted their efforts into delivering projects using what is already there. Ruby is really easy to pick up. Much easier than rewriting Rails in X. Give it a shot before thinking about a rewrite.
David, you still need to provide a mailing list to Rails, please consider it seriously :-)
Dude, you start installing it, tease me about it, and now I gotta finish the job myself... sigh... ok :-) R
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