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Grails and Ruby on Rails OO - Kind of Odd

Posted December 11, 2009

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…

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Grails More Impressions - Scripts

Posted December 7, 2009

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…

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Proposed Project - Java on Rails

Posted December 3, 2009

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,…

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Grails First Impressions – GORM vs. ActiveRecord

Posted July 28, 2009

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…

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Speed: Ruby vs. Groovy

Posted July 16, 2009

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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