The steady growth Ruby on Rails has seen over the past year seems to be slowing. Is this the end for RoR? And here I thought the language had such potential.
This graph doesn't really mean anything other than it can't be much more of a hot topic than it has been... The sheer amount of Ruby/Rails articles and news items over the last year just can't continue forever. At some point work has to actually get done.
bigbold reported this link as lame on 12/16/2006 @ 01:14:58
"Is this the end for RoR?" because search volume is now consistently high rather than growing rapidly? If the graph showed any downward trend, this post might make sense. This post just highlights someone's idiocy with statistics, and that's not what Dzone is for.. or is it? I will happily revoke this if so ;-)
I won't complain about the link because I think it represents a valid
point of view however I personally do not agree with the conclusion.
With any new technology there is bound to be a certain amount of fan-boy-ism
and band wagon jumpers, these tend to make a lot of noise without actually producing anything and leave after a while.
Also a lot of rails shops are one-man-bands and its difficult to do both marketing
and development at the same time, so a lot of these have probably switched from reporting how cool ruby/rails is back to the actual development of products.
sorry but your just lazy, setting up a fastcgi application under apache is quite trivial. Furthermore, there are other options out there that make it even /easer/ such as mongrel.
I disagree, a rails application is simply not as easy to deploy as a PHP application. If you have a dedicated server, then you could pretty much set up anything you'd like.... but the majority of us don't have dedicated servers at our disposal, and so we can't run Mongrel.
Some of the newer hosting out there supports running mongrel in a shared environment. MediaTemple offers this on their grid server shared hosting... but I haven't really used it.
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f1choudary replied ago:
Snake Oil **is** Snake Oil!
Lowell Heddings replied ago:
This graph doesn't really mean anything other than it can't be much more of a hot topic than it has been... The sheer amount of Ruby/Rails articles and news items over the last year just can't continue forever. At some point work has to actually get done.
bigbold complained ago:
bigbold reported this link as lame on 12/16/2006 @ 01:14:58
"Is this the end for RoR?" because search volume is now consistently high rather than growing rapidly? If the graph showed any downward trend, this post might make sense. This post just highlights someone's idiocy with statistics, and that's not what Dzone is for.. or is it? I will happily revoke this if so ;-)
Lowell Heddings replied ago:
Your complaint seems perfectly valid to me.
cha0sth30ry complained ago:
cha0sth30ry reported this link as lame on 12/16/2006 @ 04:12:09
This link is just as stupid as x language is the most popular or x language sucks because I think so....
I don't give a sh1t about any of that stuff - just tell me why exactly something is good and show me how to use it... these posts just waste space
combas replied ago:
I won't complain about the link because I think it represents a valid
point of view however I personally do not agree with the conclusion.
With any new technology there is bound to be a certain amount of fan-boy-ism
and band wagon jumpers, these tend to make a lot of noise without actually producing anything and leave after a while.
Also a lot of rails shops are one-man-bands and its difficult to do both marketing
and development at the same time, so a lot of these have probably switched from reporting how cool ruby/rails is back to the actual development of products.
jmcantrell replied ago:
AFAIK, there's still no solid way to set up a rails app under apache (due to problems with fastcgi), which totally kills it for me.
victori replied ago:
sorry but your just lazy, setting up a fastcgi application under apache is quite trivial. Furthermore, there are other options out there that make it even /easer/ such as mongrel.
Lowell Heddings replied ago:
I disagree, a rails application is simply not as easy to deploy as a PHP application. If you have a dedicated server, then you could pretty much set up anything you'd like.... but the majority of us don't have dedicated servers at our disposal, and so we can't run Mongrel.
Some of the newer hosting out there supports running mongrel in a shared environment. MediaTemple offers this on their grid server shared hosting... but I haven't really used it.
f1choudary replied ago:
Mark Thomas complained ago:
markthomas reported this link as inaccurate on 12/17/2006 @ 09:19:06
How you can draw this conclusion based on news articles "leveling off" is beyond me.
kaiwren complained ago:
kaiwren reported this link as lame on 12/18/2006 @ 07:46:51
brianjlandau complained ago:
brianjlandau reported this link as lame on 12/19/2006 @ 04:30:08
daniel complained ago:
daniel reported this link as lame on 12/27/2006 @ 03:37:13
I agree. Just because news is levelling off about RoR doesn't mean that usage is effected.
Chad Humphries complained ago:
spicycode reported this link as lame on 12/28/2006 @ 10:20:41
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