[Rails] Re: Rails vs Grails

egervari wrote:
>> 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.

Rails can perform quite well. Hulu and Ravelry are both known for being
high-traffic Rails sites with excellent performance.

>
> 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?

It depends. On lots of things.

>
> 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).

I believe there's a gem for this, though I've never tried to do it.

>
> 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?

I wouldn't quite yet, particularly if you're not familiar with Rails or
Ruby.

>
> Thanks!

Best,
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