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Recently, I was following a blog and found a link which took me to the Ruby on Rails tutorial. I was really amazed at the flexibility and the quickness with which the platform responded. Within a few hours I was able to create, integrate the same with the MySQL database and deploy the application in my laptop. Given that I have been struggling with Java for many years and this came as fresh breeze. At the end I was even able to go back and find out how much time I spent on developing the application.

Of course, this is nothing new as you are all aware, Ruby definetly rocks but there are some obstacles on the way. First of all, it would take long time for the Enterprises to adopt the new platform and convert the existing legacy applications into the new environment and find the relevent talent or educate the existing employees to the new technology. In a corporate environment, specific set of managers/architects are biased towards what they are comfortable but not what it right for the company. This typically influences them to adopt Java/J2EE. I am not saying that Java/J2EE is better than Rails but since it has been there since long time, it has an edge. The real attractive point on the Rails is the ease and the time required for development.

Recently, I was following a blog and found a link which took me to the Ruby on Rails tutorial. I was really amazed at the flexibility and the quickness with which the platform responded. Within a few hours I was able to create, integrate the same with the MySQL database and deploy the application in my laptop. Given that I have been struggling with Java for many years and this came as fresh breeze. At the end I was even able to go back and find out how much time I spent on developing the application.

Of course, this is nothing new as you are all aware, Ruby definetly rocks but there are some obstacles on the way. First of all, it would take long time for the Enterprises to adopt the new platform and convert the existing legacy applications into the new environment and find the relevent talent or educate the existing employees to the new technology. In a corporate environment, specific set of managers/architects are biased towards what they are comfortable but not what it right for the company. This typically influences them to adopt Java/J2EE. I am not saying that Java/J2EE is better than Rails but since it has been there since long time, it has an edge. The real attractive point on the Rails is the ease and the time required for development.