Comments on: Benchmark Bets on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million Investment in Engine Yard

By: Ruby on Rails Outsourcing

Ruby on Rails Outsourcing — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:22:22 +0000

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By: PuneTech » Blog Archive » Pune’s Satish Talim wins “Ruby’s Top Teacher in 2008″ award

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:41:00 +0000

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By: jiminy

jiminy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:49:24 +0000

comparing ruby/rails to java is ludicrous.

I would be choosing PHP/my own frame work or .NET versus rails… not ‘java’. That’s clueless.

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Sat, 10 May 2008 15:06:39 +0000

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By: Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:39:38 +0000

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By: Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million

Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:33:29 +0000

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By: No Joke « BarCampKC - May 9-10 2008

No Joke « BarCampKC - May 9-10 2008 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:16:31 +0000

[...] developer Tom’s also a talented entrepreneur who in January helped secure EngineYard’s 3.5 million in funding from Benchmark Capital. He’s also co-author of O’Reilly’s Capistrano and the Rails Application [...]

By: Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud

Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:28:57 +0000

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By: E-sniper » Blog Archive » Heroku Lifts Ruby on Rails Development into the Cloud

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:27:12 +0000

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By: Engine Yard recibe $3.5 millones de financiación - Javier Vidal Postigo

Engine Yard recibe $3.5 millones de financiación - Javier Vidal Postigo — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:59:59 +0000

[...] recoge la noticia e incluso lanza la pregunta de si será Ruby on Rails el nuevo [...]

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:53:52 +0000

“sky (January 11th, 2008 at 8:13 pm )
I use whatever technologies required. After all, learning Ruby, RoR,
Java, C++ takes less time than learning how to solve Maxwell’s
wave equation which is, by the way, far more interesting.
Computing is only a tool to solove problems.”

There you go…
at last somebody said it

Come on… Its just a “language”.
if you are REALLY a System Engineer then learning a “language” could take you about… what? a week?

Regards,
Diego

PS: sorry my native tongue is Spanish, sorry for my grammar, etc…

By: Sympact Technologies

Sympact Technologies — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:28:40 +0000

Engine Yard – Merb, Rubinius, $3.5 Million, Oh My!…

We have now been with Engine Yard for over two months, and the experience has been nothing short of amazing. At Rackspace for the same money we were spending we had a single point of failure for all our apps,…

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:15:31 +0000

There are some interesting points on the Ruby-Inside blog http://www.ruby...-richer-694.htm From a commenter:

“EY on the other hand is making a very calculated move to tie the future of Ruby to their products so they can rent you their $400 p/h Ruby architects (not kidding).”

Didn’t Benchmark also invest in MySQL, Jboss. It is the same deal. This is not about hosting.

By: Nima Negahban

Nima Negahban — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:16:22 +0000

@ted

Agreed , I believe they also have shown client side php using silverlight now as well. Although I’ve never tried it myself.

.NET has a very bright future , and the JVM is gaining steam with Groovy, jruby and Scala as of late.

It’s a fun time to experiment.

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:56:08 +0000

@Nima,

Oh and you can do pretty much many languages in .NET as well (^_^).

IronRuby
IronPython
F#
C#
VB.NET
etc

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:54:24 +0000

Nima,

I’ve used both RoR and .NET. For me, personally, I find it .NET to be more productive than RoR. Of course it’s not 100% pure .NET but more like Visual Studio and .NET.

By: Parag kantharia

Parag kantharia — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:49:13 +0000

Hi,

The Hosting and deployment scenerio is going to change a lot after the implementation of Windows server 2008 along with IIS-7 in February 2008.

The Zend and MS partership for an Apache alternate and fast CGI implementation would create a revolution.

The blog below was a real opener for me.
http://ironruby...t-ironruby.html

This clearly focus more on what i mentioned above plus the advantages of Ironruby over Ruby and Ruby on rails.

WoW! interesting things are taking shape.

Parag

By: sky

sky — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:13:42 +0000

I use whatever technologies required. After all, learning Ruby, RoR,
Java, C++ takes less time than learning how to solve Maxwell’s
wave equation which is, by the way, far more interesting.

Computing is only a tool to solove problems.

By: Nima Negahban

Nima Negahban — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:18:55 +0000

Hey thanks dudes.

By: kevin j

kevin j — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:16:47 +0000

why I read this whole flame war is beyond me. For giggles I googled nima and saw his linked in, sam you’re an idiot.

By: Luke Ringwald

Luke Ringwald — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:09:38 +0000

This is heated!

@sam: looks like nima has done a load of cool things. what have you done?

By: Nima Negahban

Nima Negahban — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:05:58 +0000

Sorry I don’t proof read my posts. But I do admit my grammar is abysmal especially when commenting.

I have a CS degree thanks, and I use Java and .NET on my day to day just as much as I use RoR. That is the whole point of my argument. Apparently your comprehension skills match my grammar.

Actually I just released a new version of my gel electrophoresis analysis suite which is written all in java in the fall, it is a very good language.

I am quite positive someone who feels the need to insult in such a manner probably isn’t too decorated a programmer anyways.

By: sam

sam — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:54:10 +0000

Nima:

You clearly are not a person with supporting education in either computer science or English.

Go back to using R on R — which I am quite positive is perfect for someone of your limited talent — and save us all from your grammatically inferior ramblings.

By: Nima Negahban

Nima Negahban — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:33:07 +0000

@Ted,

I’m not specifically for rails either , please don’t misconstrue my post. But to say “oh .NET or J2EE is all I’ll ever need , everything else has no merit” is silly.

In answer to your really informed question:

All the languages mentioned in those camps are turing complete (java , ruby , C#/F#/et.al) so your question is meaningless , see jruby , and the DLR as cited examples of what I mean.

There are some tasks that I can get the job done FASTER AND BETTER with in each language. If I’m going to do some quant , I’m gonna use F# or maybe haskell. If I want to create a windows driver , I’m probably going to lean towards C++/MFC 9.

There is a tool for every task. You don’t have to use 7 different ones on the same project , few projects have such a scope , but when you are faced with such a challenge its important to have the right mindset.

Thats why I mentioned thrift, and there are other projects like it.
If you actually ever used it , instead of going to the site for 5 minutes and writing it off , you would see that it’s actually not THAT complex and not THAT hard to implement , and if your managerial style is to throw your hands in the air and say

“were too dumb to use that” , then I feel sorry for your aforementioned clients.