Comments on: Have you Ever Tried Ruby on Rails?

By: Steve P. Sharpe

Steve P. Sharpe — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:30:10 +0000

Thumbs up on ROR.

A few points to the people moaning…

If you have a decent host, they willshould support ROR, like Dreamhost.com or Site5.com for example. To say it is a toy language or the sites that use it aren’t serious enough just proves that you don’t know anything about it.

Good luck with the project I will be watching it closely!

By: Dr.Jeckyl

Dr.Jeckyl — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:31:45 +0000

http://forum.freecsscart.com/viewtopic.php?pid=328#p328

my opinion.

By: Hunox

Hunox — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:46:44 +0000

Please! ROR is stupid fad. It’s a toy language. Don’t do anything serious on ROR. I know there are a ton of websites running on ROR, but none of them are serious enough.

If you want a real shopping cart, do it in PHP as you did, or in Perl.

By: Sergios Singkeridis

Sergios Singkeridis — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:59:41 +0000

Please dont do that, use php instead of ror, there is limited support from hosting companies for ruby…

By: jjmancini

jjmancini — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:34:04 +0000

based off of the numbers of adverse comments, we have decided to make a forum poll, asking which version people would rather use. You can find the poll here:

http://forum.freecsscart.com/viewtopic.php?pid=315#p315

By: wes

wes — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:56:02 +0000

this is a bummer. ruby is a great product, but is just going to really limit your customers.

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:40:50 +0000

The “knocking” is coming from those who have tried it and have found its shortcomings. Are you aware that it’s a processor hog which makes it difficult to scale? Most people fall in love with RoR at first, but most seasoned programmers that I’ve worked with (who have used RoR) realize that it’s mostly made out of hype and that it was created by a smug prick. If you want transparency (especially with bugs and exploits — this is after all an e-commerce package) and you want scalability, you’re probably better off using something like PHP. And again, the choice to go with RoR also limits the amount of people who will actually use your software. That’s not a smart business move in my mind.

By: jjmancini

jjmancini — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:36:12 +0000

The truth is…
we were skeptical about Ruby on Rails before we used it. Now, that we have used it, we won’t go back. So unless you have tried it, don’t knock it becuase it is changing the web as we know it.

By: kit

kit — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:18:11 +0000

I dunno what they’re talking about but I’m 100% even more excited about the product now!

I’ve started soing my own Ruby programming and playing with the Rails framework and I love it. My host just migrated me to a ruby supported environment for my own development, so if you realease this you’ve got me on board!

By: scribez

scribez — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:24:25 +0000

No No No….. Just unbscribed from your RSS Feed. But I guess its all up to you, its your product. Not a great fan of ruby also it means I have to get a host that supports it. big disappointment. All the best but won’t be checking up anymore.