[Rails] Re: Rails vs Grails

> The decision could have been based solely on business grounds, not technical
> grounds.
>
> People have heard of Rails, there is 'brand awareness' for Rails, so you
> more likely to be able to get clients. Or at least it would be easier
> convincing them that Rails is what they want rather than something called
> Grails that no one has heard of. Even the dimmest PHB has heard of Rails and
> that it is *HOT*
>
> Not saying that there aren't technical reasons to reject Grails but on
> purely business grounds Rails is king. So your former bosses decision might
> not be a reflection as to the technical merits of Grails.

When it comes to performance, how is Rails? Like if I were to design a
raw Spring/Hibernate app, which I'm not going to... but let's say I
did. What is the comparative performance with something like that,
even though it probably isn't a fair comparison.

Also, how well to do the tests run? Imagine a system with a few
thousand unit/integration tests. How long will it take to get all the
tests to run?

Is it hard to build cron-like events in rails/ruby? Can I do that
inside of my app where it's hosted? In the java world, we have quartz
to do this (and probably some others).

Also, is it a good idea to use rails 3.0 even if it's in beta if the
app is not going to production for awhile?

Thanks!

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