# GRAILS, great RoR competitor?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/grails-great-ror-competitor/120675>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/grails-great-ror-competitor/120675 "2007-11-19T18:42:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Piotr_N)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/grails-great-ror-competitor/120675/1 "2007-11-19T18:42:01Z")

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Have you ever heard about Grails ?

> **[Grails® Framework](https://grails.org/)**
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> A powerful Groovy-based web application framework for the JVM built on top of Spring Boot

Its RoR written in Java and Groovy, (Java scripting language)

Looks like it performs much better than RoR in almost every aspect.  
Im seriously considering switch to Grails now.  
[http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/Grails+vs+Rails+Benchmark](http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/Grails+vs+Rails+Benchmark)

i was java developer who switched to ruby and rails some time ago, but  
now im considering switching back…

if you can, please give me reasons not to do that (i dont like to learn  
new scripting language again…)

what do you think about Grails anyway ?

best regards

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**Author:** ![Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Piotr_N)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/grails-great-ror-competitor/120675/2 "2007-11-19T19:40:06Z")

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Piotr N. schrieb:

> (i dont like to learn new scripting language again…)

me either, so you have the number one reason already mentioned.

best regards

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**Author:** ![Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Piotr_N)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/grails-great-ror-competitor/120675/3 "2007-11-19T20:05:53Z")

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matthibcn pisze:

> Piotr N. schrieb:
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> > (i dont like to learn new scripting language again…)
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> me either, so you have the number one reason already mentioned.

yes but im taking all goodies into account when switching to new lang -  
all java libraries and stuff. i think its worth, especially groovy is  
very like ruby at the first sight…

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**Author:** ![Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Piotr_N)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/grails-great-ror-competitor/120675/4 "2007-11-19T20:35:17Z")

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Playing devil’s advocate, you can get all the java bells and whistles by  
using JRuby…

Matt

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**Author:** ![Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Piotr\_N](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Piotr_N)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/grails-great-ror-competitor/120675/5 "2007-11-20T01:46:44Z")

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I never really get these kind of posts. If GRAILS works for you, go  
for it. You should check into the community to see if you’ll get the  
same level of support as this fine community.

As for me, I’m working on getting out of Java once and for all. Once  
I’m out I never go back there again. At least that’s the plan.