Lessons learnt from Ruby on Rails
Continuting on my yesterday’s post on Harvested Frameworks, I read an interesting article in IBM developerWorks titled “Crossing borders: Exploring Active Record“. This is a good article by Bruce Tate comparing ROR’s active record vs J2EE based ORM Hibernate. In addition to it, also read Bill Venner’s blog post on “Code Generation: The Real Lesson of Rails” that refers to the same article but Bill posts his thoughts on it. Very interesting and I think there is definitely something to learn from ROR’s convention over configuration principle and the concept of dynamic code generation that Bill talks about. At Compassites we have few projects going on in ROR and we have realized how productive we were with those projects.
