All blog posts tagged with groovy
One of the Biggest Lessons I've Learned in IT
Something struck me today: over the years, I've been involved in a lot of different projects for a lot of different companies (even some just person projects). The #1 lesson I've learned is this - never exclude a particular technology from your choice of solutions merely because you don't like it (o…
Grails and Ruby on Rails OO - Kind of Odd
After having worked in Ruby on Rails and Grails for a bit now, something occurred to me that's a little odd about their designs. In this particular observation, both the frameworks end up with the same net effect (but achieve it in different ways). The issue in question is how to declare different m…
Grails More Impressions - Scripts
For my next reflection on impressions with Grails, I'm going to look at scripts (in the context of little utility scripts to simplify common complex tasks).
For this entry, I will compare Grails' "gant" scripts with Ruby "rake" scripts.
First up, namespacing is very different between the two. Gant u…
Proposed Project - Java on Rails
I've become a little disillustion with all the various agile frameworks out there.
At first, I had high hopes for Ruby on Rails, but after working on it for a year and a half, I decided that Ruby is a terrible language, and Rails is an aweful framework built on top of a terrible language.
Naturally,…
Grails First Impressions – GORM vs. ActiveRecord
This blog entry is about my thoughts and observations while I'm starting to learn Grails. At the onset, the primary thing I've concerned myself with is the domain layer (what Ruby on Rails calls “models”). For the purposes of my impressions, I'm going to compare Grails' GORM with Ruby on Rails' Acti…
Speed: Ruby vs. Groovy
I'd like to set the record straight on an issue I've seen mentioned on the Internet. I've seen the Ruby fan-boys parading about (again) claiming that Ruby is faster than Groovy, and therefore RoR is better than Grails.
I've written a simple suite of benchmarks pitting many languages against each oth…
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