# Web Services

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-services/178452>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 4, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-services/178452 "2009-11-04T22:28:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-services/178452/1 "2009-11-04T22:28:06Z")

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Hi Bill,

isn’t Rails a bit too much for you (little) WS. How about considering  
another little “frameworks” like Sinatra? It’s worth a try. Rails is a  
great  
framework but it’s not always a (the) right choice. Can give you some  
links  
if you want.

Cheers,  
Chris

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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-services/178452/2 "2009-11-04T22:52:41Z")

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Christoph J.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Rails is a great  
> framework but it’s not always a (the) right choice.

Please tell me, under what circumstances is Rails not the right choice?

Reading your statement made me think of other frameworks I’ve used to  
build sites with over the years… Django, Zend Framework, Catalyst,  
J2EE, .Net. I can’t think of a single thing that’d make me want to  
use any of those instead of Rails.

The only reason I can think of is if maybe you didn’t know Ruby. But  
then Rails list traffic shows that particular detail doesn’t seem to  
hold anyone back.

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)

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**Author:** ![christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@christoph\_j](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/christoph_j)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-services/178452/3 "2009-11-04T23:10:14Z")

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Hi yes. My original post implied this was a simple web service but it  
will get incrementally more difficult as we add more services. This is  
just a starting point. Also my goal is here is to probe to management  
and the other developers that rails is industrial strength enough for  
these types of things. I’m still going forward with rails. I just  
wanted to know if anyone else has done this type if thing before and  
how they started.

–  
Steven Elliott Jr