Comments on: MicroISV: Deciding on a platform (aka Ruby on Rails) (aka Rapid Application Development for people who know how to program)

By: hammett

hammett — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:44:00 +0000

Castle has a Rails-like ActiveRecord implementation that uses NHibernate. So far I'm very happy with it

http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/ActiveRecord

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:41:00 +0000

How shameful. A bug in my code!

10.times { |i| puts ‘Hip Hip! Hooray’ + ( ‘!’ * i ) }

That’s what I get for not proof-reading.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:40:00 +0000

Marcus: ActiveRecord isn’t an O/R Mapper. The first sign is that it’s Database Driven. So it by and large requires your database to be structured a certain way. James is spot on when he supposes he might save more than a few hours. ActiveRecord is far from the best part of Rails. You could use NHibernate in .NET land and get more features from Day One if that was all it offered.

James: Welcome to the dark side.

10.times { puts ‘Hip Hip! Hooray’ + ( ‘!’ * i ) }

By: James Avery

James Avery — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:13:00 +0000

Brian,

I could definitly use Ruby/Rails support for the web services, I am just not sure what level of support there is. That is something I will investigate when I get to that point.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:40:00 +0000

Why not use the Ruby/Rails support for web services? Providing a hosted service is another option. LAMP hosting solutions are no-brainers for MicroISVs who have a clue about managing costs, and want to extract high profits.

Regards the 'enterprise applications' I think this is where a lot of things have gone wrong. It's a nice term for 'overengineer'. People turn a 20 page brochureware website into a buggy, month long project using the out-of-the-box .NET tools. People think they have to be building enterprise applications instead of building software that is actually useful. Yes this is partly an organisational culture, IT industry and Mort problem - but the tools increase the problem. MicroISVs should steer well clear of anything that will result in issues like that.

By: Marcus McConnell

Marcus McConnell — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:03:00 +0000

If you go with ASP.NET for web services and Ruby for your main site you’ve just made a decision to use multiple platforms for your Micro ISV project. I would think the cost of supporting two platforms down the road doesn’t justify a few hours saved by the ORM tools.

By: Jeff Schoolcraft

Jeff Schoolcraft — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:13:00 +0000

James,

If you're instered in Ruby on Rails you should check out the Castle project:

http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/Main_Page