# Quick ! Reasons to use Rails!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 11, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969 "2005-12-11T06:44:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dylans)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969/1 "2005-12-11T06:44:11Z")

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Can someone point me to a good article on why one should use RoR ?  
A fact sheet would be great.

I have a slew of articles collected, like:  
“CDBaby migration to rails”  
“David Geary’s Blog”  
“Bruce Tate’s take”  
… etc…

… but would love to know if there was something that covered it all,  
in a  
concise manner.

There should be a master document so we could use to explain it’s case  
well  
for adoption on future projects.  
Thanks,  
Dylan

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**Author:** ![dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dylans)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 6:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969/2 "2005-12-11T06:52:48Z")

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- Dylan S. (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) [051211 00:45]:

> … but would love to know if there was something that covered it all, in a  
> concise manner.
> 
> There should be a master document so we could use to explain it’s case well for  
> adoption on future projects.

We wrote one for ourselves, maybe you can adapt it for yourself:

[http://rewrite.rickbradley.com/pages/moving\_to\_rails/](http://rewrite.rickbradley.com/pages/moving_to_rails/)

If you do, would you be so kind as to post it online and let us all know  
where it lives?

## Rick

[http://www.rickbradley.com](http://www.rickbradley.com) MUPRN: 677  
| to get together  
random email haiku | and exchange rumors, ideas,  
| assistance, etc.

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**Author:** ![dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dylans)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 7:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969/3 "2005-12-11T07:55:16Z")

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Ahh… I already had this one at the top of my list. Thanks Rick 🙂

I am going to put together a list of hard-hitting case studies / facts  
about  
RoR soon.  
The CDBaby and AListApart migration stories, your story, O’Reilly book  
sales… are all huge points in my opinion, and they really stand out.

Thanks much Rick ! I’m hopefully starting an “enterprise” scale RoR  
project  
soon, and trying to convince the CEO it would be a good decision. There  
are  
a lot of Java advocates barking up the same tree, and I’m trying to sway  
the  
Java/Struts/Hibernate approach ! I’ve been coding in that enviroment  
for  
the last year, and it’s been hard now that I’ve used RoR 🙂

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**Author:** ![dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dylans)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 9:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969/4 "2005-12-11T09:32:45Z")

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Here is a list that works for me -

Time is money.

matt

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**Author:** ![dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dylans)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969/5 "2005-12-11T13:41:58Z")

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What is rarely mentioned, and just as important to consider, is what  
Rails doesn’t provide:  
continuations and page state (saving and restoring the state of all  
controls/widgets/fields).  
Rails has made certain trade offs, and, to be fair, a lot of other  
frameworks have made  
the same choices.

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**Author:** ![dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dylans)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969/6 "2005-12-12T07:33:49Z")

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Dylan S. wrote:

> Can someone point me to a good article on why one should use RoR ?

> **[Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language](https://ruby-doc.org/whyruby/)**
>
> Fast, searchable Ruby documentation for core and standard libraries. Plus, links to tutorials, guides, books, and related sites.

–

[http://www.ruby-doc.org](http://www.ruby-doc.org) - Ruby Help & Documentation  
[Ruby Code & Style](http://www.artima.com/rubycs/) - Ruby Code & Style: Writers wanted  
[http://www.rubystuff.com](http://www.rubystuff.com) - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff  
[http://www.jamesbritt.com](http://www.jamesbritt.com) - Playing with Better Toys  
[http://www.30secondrule.com](http://www.30secondrule.com) - Building Better Tools

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**Author:** ![dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dylans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dylans)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/quick-reasons-to-use-rails/49969/7 "2005-12-12T18:03:53Z")

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Awesome… thanks guys 🙂