# Ruby on Rails Executive Summary? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 14, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-executive-summary/111992 "2007-08-14T03:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rails_in_dc)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-executive-summary/111992/1 "2007-08-14T03:34:38Z")
A friend of mine is looking to convince some executives to sign off on ruby. He’s looking for a good white paper executive summary of Rails. Not surprisingly, a simple google search doesn’t turn up much in this regard, developers seem to prefer to demonstrate Rails rather than summarize it. Regardless of the prevailing opinion on white papers, if you have something along these lines, it’d be a big help. Much thanks, - Matt ---
**Author:** ![rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rails_in_dc)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-executive-summary/111992/2 "2007-08-14T04:23:44Z")
It might be useful to let your peeps know a little about what rails is not - something that frankly I got hung up on over the past year: Ruby on Rails is NOT (and does not include) an object-oriented database (OODB) that munges up your relational models - in fact, it completely leverages your old-school, well-designed relational data models. Sure, it may reward one for a few relational best practices (e.g. table name =\> plural form; primary key =\> “id”; foreign key =\> [foreign\_table\_name]\_id, etc.), but it does not obfuscate your data in layer-upon-layer of object-oriented dereferencing and wrappers. Not a white paper, but is that concise enough? m ---
**Author:** ![rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rails_in_dc)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-executive-summary/111992/3 "2007-08-14T04:31:45Z")
Not sure if it’s what your after but \*Michel Barbosa \*\*wrote a thesis on rails a while back [http://thesis.cicaboo.com/](http://thesis.cicaboo.com/) HTH Daniel \* ---
**Author:** ![rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rails_in_dc)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-executive-summary/111992/4 "2007-08-14T09:46:23Z")
rails\_in\_dc wrote: > A friend of mine is looking to convince some executives to sign off on > ruby. He’s looking for a good white paper executive summary of Rails. > Not surprisingly, a simple google search doesn’t turn up much in this > regard, developers seem to prefer to demonstrate Rails rather than > summarize it. > > Regardless of the prevailing opinion on white papers, if you have > something along these lines, it’d be a big help. Rails For All at [http://www.railsforall.com/](http://www.railsforall.com/) aims to provide just this. – Roderick van Domburg > **[De domeinnaam Nedforce.nl is te koop.](http://www.nedforce.nl)** > > Deze mooie domeinnaam kan al over een paar minuten van jou zijn. Betalen gaat eenvoudig en vertrouwd via iDEAL. Direct na de betaling ontvang je de verhuiscode per e-mail en kun je aan de slag. ---
**Author:** ![rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rails\_in\_dc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rails_in_dc)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-executive-summary/111992/5 "2007-08-14T08:45:01Z")
The following article from O’Reilly convinced me to switch from Java EE to Ruby on Rails. The fact that it’s written by a few Java gurus is pretty convincing : [Radar – O’Reilly](http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/6334) Chris.