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Ruby On Rails / MS Visual Studio

  • 28-09-2012 11:23PM
    #1
    gerarda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭


    Hi all,
    I am in my final semester of a web technologies course and have to submit a final year web application covering server and client side. I have already used rails for a previous project and personally found it hard to get to grips with and it took time to resolve coding issues but I kept at it and its becoming a bit clearer now. I got my first glimpse at Visual Studio the other night and was very impressed, I need to decide which to use fairly quickly. Has anyone any advice? Personally I think Rails would be harder to use but there seems to be a demand for Rails people right now.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,253 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    gerarda wrote: »
    Hi all,
    I am in my final semester of a web technologies course and have to submit a final year web application covering server and client side. I have already used rails for a previous project and personally found it hard to get to grips with and it took time to resolve coding issues but I kept at it and its becoming a bit clearer now. I got my first glimpse at Visual Studio the other night and was very impressed, I need to decide which to use fairly quickly. Has anyone any advice? Personally I think Rails would be harder to use but there seems to be a demand for Rails people right now.

    Thanks
    are u doing web tech in the nci?

    I did 3 ruby projects. changed the themes and built on them. I was advised by faculty not to try reinventing the wheel.

    best advice is to go with what you know.

    I used c# and visual studio for an enterprise project.it was a nightmare trying to learn a language and develop an app in 10 weeks.


  • #3
    Aswerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Aswerty


    It's a bit odd contrasting RoR and VS since one is a web framework and the other is an IDE. I'd agree that VS is pretty slick (especially 2012) although I try to avoid the wizard side of it. I'm not familar with RoR at a practical level but what I hear from the community makes it sound pretty good.

    A more relevant comarison for me would be RoR versus ASP.NET MVC with C#. I develop with the latter and really enjoy it. The main differences are MVC is developed with either VS, or with Mono on a non windows box, where as RoR's heavy weight IDE is eclipse. Also Ruby is a dynamic language and C# is a static language. Dynamic languages are considered the golden child of modern web developoment although I haven't sunk my theeth into any bar some JavaScript.

    From a future job perspective MVC/C# is more likely to land you in a more established/tradtional software shop where as RoR will lead more into the start up scene (though not neccesarily). I think either route will be of benefit to you but I would advise you to consider which language you would prefer after college since you'll be able to hit the ground running in which ever one you chose.


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