[2.0] Play2 VS RoR with gems

[Martín Bigio]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to compare Play 2 with RoR in a software development speed perspective. I've no experience en RoR but I've found quite interesting the huge community it has and the many gems their offer. In this sense I feel that play community is smaller (of course I know that this framework is much newer) and it has not so many plugins... :(

Any thoughts?

[James Ong]

Performance wise, JVM is faster than RoR but both are different eco-system, there should be no comparisons just like trying to compare PHP and Java.

[Andy Czerwonka]

If you value type safety, Play is a no brainier. For me, a language without a strong type system is not something I'd accept for anything non-trivial.

[Ivan Meredith]

The JVM has a huge amount of libraries out there. Its prpbably even
better than the range of gems.

On 27 June 2012 14:49, Andy Czerwonka <andy.cz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you value type safety, Play is a no brainier. For me, a language without a strong type system is not something I'd accept for anything non-trivial.
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[Marcos Pereira]

And you can use JRuby to run your Rails application using JVM. 

Well, that said, search for "rails" in this list to see some discussions/comparisons about rails and play.

HTH
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[Martín Bigio]

James and Andy, although I completely agree with you (also scala it's
great ;)), I just wanted to mention that with a little bit of research
I found that there are much much more gems than play2 plugins... and
this obviously leads to faster project bootstraping. I'm not going to
change for rails right now cause i wouldn't change static checks for
almost nothing, just saying that would be nice to foment more plugin
development.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:26 AM, Ivan Meredith <iv...@ivan.net.nz> wrote:

[Marcos Pereira]

Hi, Martín,

Yes there are thousands and thousands of gems. Rails is a VERY mature environment, not only a lot of gems, but also tools, editors, hosting, consulting, etc, etc. But consider that the initial release of Rails was made in 2004 - eight years ago.

I think that play has a good momentum, but it is not fair to compare how mature its environment is regarding Rails.

Kind Regards,
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