By commanderdgr8
via martinfowler.com
Published: Jul 03 2009 / 07:21
ThoughtWorks started using Ruby for production projects in 2006, from then till the end of 2008 we had done 41 ruby projects. In preparation for a talk at QCon I surveyed these projects to examine what lessons we can draw from the experience. I describe our thoughts so far on common questions about Ruby's productivity, speed and maintainability. So far our conclusions are that Ruby is a viable platform that should be seriously considered for many forms of applications - in particular web applications using Ruby on Rails. I also go through some technical lessons, including some thoughts on testing with Active Record.
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psyho replied ago:
This has already been posted two weeks ago.
commanderdgr8 replied ago:
I am sorry. Actually after posting this link I realized that somebody already posted this link so I wanted to delete it, but couldn't find any delete link.
andrewm replied ago:
it's a decent article though, bears repeating. i think for all its good points, thoughtworks is a fairly arrogant cult. they just can't help themselves with phrases like "ThoughtWorks developers tend to be far above average in terms of ability and also very keen on highly disciplined approaches". i'm sure they are very good in the main, but i've seen them kicked off a project they failed on. better than the big guys though.
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