Re: [Rails] Re: Rails vs Grails

On 20 May 2010 13:45, egervari <ken.egervari@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

Sorry I do not have sufficient experience to help you with this.

 

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?

This depends on your tests. A massive amount of badly written tests are going to take a long time to run regardless of the language. The choice of language is not going to mitigate bad design or coding.

 

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).

We (where I work) are a Linux shop and we use cron extensively to push and pull data to keep our systems up to date.

Here is the plugin we use http://github.com/PeterHickman/Crons-for-Rails there is also some bits and pieces on my blog if it might help ( http://peter-hickman.blogspot.com/ )

There are other tools but this deploys the crons with the site using capistrano and installs them all in one go. Works for us.

 

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?

To be honest we haven't even looked at 3 yet. I'm pretty sure that we have at least one 2.0.X site still running. I would base your decisions on what is available now, it's not like all the Rails 2.X code is going to suddenly stop working the day 3 goes live.

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