What we heard at Rails Conference 2007
RailsConf
2007 (where we were diamond sponsors) was one of those conferences
where the conversations made the event bigger and better than I
anticipated. The ThoughtWorks booth was a great place
to sit
and talk, so I had the chance to chat with a wide spectrum of
people. We had some spirited conversations
about Microsoft on one end, and more laid back conversations with
those adopting Rails or considering it on the other. One thing
was pretty clear - there is a lot of excitement around bringing Ruby
to the enterprise - and people just want the tools to enable them
to do so.
We received a lot of interest in more convenient mechanisms to deploy and host Rails applications. For people deploying in flexible or LAMP based environments, the RubyWorks Production Stack is our first iteration at a standardized stack. After the conference, DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) launched a Google group for people interested in talking about standardized Rails stacks.
We also met a considerable number of people from Java shops interested in JRuby. JRuby really lowers the hurdle of perceived enterprise deployment stability by making the software lifecycle after development the same as a typical Java application. Incidentally, I even heard a story where someone snuck a JRuby on Rails application into production using a standard .war (better not to try that at home, or err... work!)
At the end of the RailsConf, I came away astonished and relieved. ThoughtWorks Studios thought that Ruby was ready for the enterprise - we just weren't sure everyone else did.
There are 12 -14 million developers in the world by current estimates. We believe that the dynamic language communities have a lot to offer all these developers – such as Domain Specific Languages, meta programming, REST, Don’t Repeat Yourself, and convention over configuration. We don't want Ruby and Ruby on Rails to be the purview of an elite few only, but we believe we can change the day job of all developers.
It's ambitious, but from what we've heard, momentum is on our side.
We received a lot of interest in more convenient mechanisms to deploy and host Rails applications. For people deploying in flexible or LAMP based environments, the RubyWorks Production Stack is our first iteration at a standardized stack. After the conference, DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) launched a Google group for people interested in talking about standardized Rails stacks.
We also met a considerable number of people from Java shops interested in JRuby. JRuby really lowers the hurdle of perceived enterprise deployment stability by making the software lifecycle after development the same as a typical Java application. Incidentally, I even heard a story where someone snuck a JRuby on Rails application into production using a standard .war (better not to try that at home, or err... work!)
At the end of the RailsConf, I came away astonished and relieved. ThoughtWorks Studios thought that Ruby was ready for the enterprise - we just weren't sure everyone else did.
There are 12 -14 million developers in the world by current estimates. We believe that the dynamic language communities have a lot to offer all these developers – such as Domain Specific Languages, meta programming, REST, Don’t Repeat Yourself, and convention over configuration. We don't want Ruby and Ruby on Rails to be the purview of an elite few only, but we believe we can change the day job of all developers.
It's ambitious, but from what we've heard, momentum is on our side.
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VinothbabuJuly 2nd, 2007 @ 05:50 AM
I think more people are looking into rails framework. personally i with JAVA and play around with PHP some times. I have used cakephp, but rails framework makes me thrust in jumping to it. Moreover the RUBY language is very easy to learn and has sorted out a lot of limitations what PHP has. I think we can see a major move from PHP team at their next conference held somewhere in december or the start of next year. Regards
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