for about one and half a year I am involved in RoR Development. I like
the framework very much!
But more and more I have my doubts, that this framework will succeed,
I think Ruby on Rails succeed only, if some powers from community will
be concentrated on a target-oriented
development of the Framework.
Since the approach of a pragmatic way of programming isn’t new
anymore,
more and more frameworks come along with a similar aspect of
application design.
Check this out, http://5-0.dev.typo3.org/guide/index.html
I find, that other frameworks are envolving more profound than rails
does at the moment.
The Dev Version of Typo3 is comming up with very estabilshed
Components AND will catch up
many people also with the built in CMS Functionality.
I think there should really be a group as well, where some things
should really be under one roof:
Authorization Standard
Localization Standard
CMS Standard
Extension- / Plugin- / Packageinterface
I think i a longer term, RoR will have a chance if it will have some
senseful application built on.
Like a powerful CMS of DMS.
But more and more I have my doubts, that this framework will succeed,
Well then you need to start liking something else.
I think Ruby on Rails succeed only, if some powers from community will
be concentrated on a target-oriented
development of the Framework.
Some powers from the community are concentrated on building apps that
work, not a frameworks-in-the-sky
for making a CMS-that-does-everything-and-poorly-a-that
Check this out, http://5-0.dev.typo3.org/guide/index.html
I’ve checked it out. It’s different. It’s a huge CMS with absurd
system requirements. And I won’t be compiling PHP6 because I’ve had
enough of PHP compilation tragedies in my former life.
I think i a longer term, RoR will have a chance if it will have some
senseful application built on.
Rails has senseful appliactions built on, but has no applications
built in. It’s intentional.
Like a powerful CMS of DMS.
Youa are totally free to help with the development of Radiant. Or
auto-admin. Or ActiveScaffold.
What do you think?
I think you should go Django if the “CMS-y preimplemented-ly
componentized” is your kind of thing.
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Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov
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me at julik.nl
I think you get the point of Ruby on Rails totally wrong.
Ruby on Rails is no CMS like Typo3, thats something fundamental
different.
You cannot compare it, its a framework, a base to build web
applications and services.
And its becoming a plain core even more (many things have been removed
and stuffed into plugins lately).
And thats the best thing for me in Rails, it does not go into one
direction, you’re free to do
everything, make a CMS or just some application. And its even getting
cooler every day, rails beeing the core
enables the development of extensions like Hobo (www.hobocentral.net)
which I personally would call the best
framework to develop very fast and very Dry applications, based on
rails.
I have comparisions like that, if you want to compare it to typo, look
at how easy it is to build your own cms (eg. in Hobo),
or use one of the many existing publishing applications based on rails
(see http://www.railsbased.org for a small list).
And if you don’t the way these apps work, you can use them as a base,
and extend them in no time.
So please, let rails be a core framework, nothing more. It does not
need CMS functionality and fu, modularity is the real benefit.
Authorization Standard
Localization Standard
CMS Standard
Extension- / Plugin- / Packageinterface
all those points are already existing? But I’ll repeat that again, its
totally wrong to put this into the core.
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