# Ruby on Rails Platform Maturity - Need Some Feedback

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-platform-maturity-need-some-feedback/88220>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 9, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-platform-maturity-need-some-feedback/88220 "2007-03-09T00:01:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 12:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-platform-maturity-need-some-feedback/88220/1 "2007-03-09T00:01:28Z")

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I am posting these questions for one of my friend who is thinking  
about moving from J2EE to Ruby on Rails for his web development  
projects within his company. His plan is to develop the product and  
then go for venture funding. I would like to get as much feedback as  
possible, thank you for sharing your opinions.

1. How mature is the Ruby lang/Rails, funding & support from the  
industry/community
2. IDE’s, Testing tools in the market and support availability?
3. Support for webservices, XML and messaging services
4. web/appservers supporting deployment with (load balancing/  
clustering) and product suppport availability
5. Advantages with examples over J2EE/.NET
6. integration with LDAP, Mail servers etc
7. Database drivers availability for industry leading databases.
8. O/S support? unix/linux
9. List of sites/ASP’s running/supporting ruby

and any other supporting info.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-on-rails-platform-maturity-need-some-feedback/88220/2 "2007-03-09T02:18:00Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I am posting these questions for one of my friend who is thinking  
> about moving from J2EE to Ruby on Rails for his web development  
> projects within his company. His plan is to develop the product and  
> then go for venture funding. I would like to get as much feedback as  
> possible, thank you for sharing your opinions.
> 
> 1. How mature is the Ruby lang/Rails, funding & support from the  
> industry/community
> 2. IDE’s, Testing tools in the market and support availability?
> 3. Support for webservices, XML and messaging services
> 4. web/appservers supporting deployment with (load balancing/  
> clustering) and product suppport availability
> 5. Advantages with examples over J2EE/.NET
> 6. integration with LDAP, Mail servers etc
> 7. Database drivers availability for industry leading databases.
> 8. O/S support? unix/linux
> 9. List of sites/ASP’s running/supporting ruby
> 
> and any other supporting info.

My intention isn’t to be rude, but this is a real lazyweb kind of post.  
You are asking for a significant amount of information, and it’s not  
even for yourself! You can learn all of what you asked with a little  
searching and reading. Much of that information can be found in the  
archives of this mailing list, and the rest can be found on the many  
Ruby and Rails blogs. Have fun in your search.