I’m helping a friend who is going to be creating a new web app a hand
navigating the technology maze. So far I’ve steered him in the direction
of Ruby because it seems that a small team can build a good web app
quickly in it. So far so good. I’ve read a most of the Pick Axe book and
it’s great as far as it goes.
But now I’m stuck how do I evaluate the various frameworks? Rails? Merb?
I like the agnostic approach of Merb and am concerned that Rails has
already chosen the UI library (the ORM tool, etc.) for me. But I know so
little at this stage I may be missing the boat. Where do I go to learn
more? The ideal would be I write small web app in each framework to get
sense of what works. But this is unpaid work and I have a family so that
option is right out.
I’ve found the following post at InfoQ:
The Forgotten Ruby Web Frameworks - it at
least mentions other frameworks. But even that news item makes no real
attempt at comparison. Are there any good comparisons of the frameworks
out there?
Where would you start?
Mark L.
Agile Software Development Coach
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