[LRUG] PHP and Rails

[David Townsend]

Amen! Sorry didn't mean to pick the ole scalability rails scab.  The project
diplomacy is complex as it began as a favour to a friend, yeah I know
warning bells should have rung, I would have turned it down otherwise.  Just
checked out http://www.codeigniter.com and it looks exactly what I'm looking
for, including some features I wasn't expecting and thought I'd have to code
myself.  Thanks everyone for the help.

David

On 7/19/06, Stephen Bartholomew <steve at curve21.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
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