Ruby on Rails has a released version 2.0 and I think based on some of the new and improved changes that it maybe the time to finally jump ship on ASP.NET and move over to Ruby on Rails.
The one problem that I’ve had with RoR in the past is that it just does not scale. I’m hoping that this gets resolved and makes my decision easier. My other choice is to continue using ASP.NET and see how their new MVC model is going to be like?
Is it better to use a framework like Ruby on Rails where MVC was designed from the beginning or as an afterthought to ASP.NET. ASP.NET is really started to feel bloated.
It’s reminding me of the days back in VB 6 and web development. Visual Basic (before .net days) was not designed for the web but as an afterthought. VB 6 you could develop web applications several ways. You could just use ASP with vbscript, ASP with VB COM dlls, VB with COM Control running in MTS or VB 6 web classes. They all have their plus and minuses but again they were an after thought.
This is what I feel ASP.NET is becoming. You can do it the old way (Web Forms), AJAX way (which is bloated and I’d prefer to use jQuery or Protoype), and now MVC. I don’t know enough of it yet to make an educated decision but at this point should I just jump and move over to RoR instead? Decisions, decisions….
Learn Ruby on Rails or learn MVC for ASP.NET?
December 19th, 2007 — .net, ruby, rubyonRails