It seems I have been asked to list all the advantages of Rails in an
interview a few times. I was able to come up with many of the easy ones
like active record abstarcts SQL, dynamic HTML, and so on, but I am
starting to feel like I need to go and find the official list so I get
it all right. It often seems like one flub up and the interviewer gets
turned off or something. I guess I have been so busy trying to learn
Rails and other web technologies that I don’t have all the answers to
these questions. By the way, has it ever happened to you that you where
asked to solve a problem in an interview and you where so nervous that
you screwed it up ? Some of these interviews go on so long that fatigue
sets in so that eventually you end up messing some question up, or at
least that’s what happened to me. I had an interview for Java where I
was in a conference room and they had people coming and going grilling
me with all kinds of questions, having me write sample code and nit
picking it apart. I must have talked to 10 people. At the time I was
focued on Rails so my Java was a bit rusty.
Anyway, it seems I am also supposed to know the answer to what is the
downside of Rails ? I don’t know, it’s a little slower than Java, I
heard that it doesn’t work as good as Perl Catalyst for legacy
database, I don’t know I give up, please tell me all the answers !!!