[LRUG] PHP and Rails

[Stephen Bartholomew]

> I've run into the same problem trying to "sell" RoR to potential
> clients. Especially back home (Argentina), where RoR is completely
> unknown amongst programmers, clients fear that they will be left alone
> in the world with no one to mantain the system.
This topic as the potential to explode :0)  It should also possibly be 
on the rails list...

My personal experience is that in a lot of cases clients don't *really* 
care what platform/language a system runs on.  Our clients hire us to 
create the best system we can to solve their needs - that includes 
platform/language.  For us, that means using rails.

We've even turned a job down recently because the client insisted we 
used a windows/.net setup.   We could have technically done it, but 
we're not interested in making things harder for ourselves.

As far as i'm concerned (and many others), scalability isn't issue.  The 
concerns have been addressed soooo many times i wont repeat them.

In terms of hiring people to maintain the system: firstly, i'd hope 
they'd go to you :0)  Secondly,  there are tonnes of rails developers 
out there and more are getting competent every day.  Thirdly, ruby/rails 
is easy to pick up if you're half-decent developer.

Anyway, that's my preach over :0)

Steve