Comments on: How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity ten fold

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:24:14 +0000

Oh my god! I have the same virus.

I developed websites for more than 10 years in PHP and now I learned RoR.
And it is the first time since a long time that I cannot await getting up in the morning for programming :-)

CU
M

PS: I want to have scaling problem, too ;-)

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By: gunteman

gunteman — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:03:51 +0000

I have a similar experience, feeling that I have wasted 8 good years developing with ASP.NET. I could have produced so much more if I hadn’t fallen into that trap.

ASP.NET MVC2 is quite promising though, especially when used with fuller stacks, such as SharpArchitecture. I guess that’s as far as I will be able to push my co-workers right now.

By: Aymeric

Aymeric — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:30:21 +0000

Not yet unfortunately. I don’t know any expert ruby on rails developer at the moment.

But it is a good idea, I should look for a RoR “mentor”.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:59:01 +0000

My experience almost completely mirrors yours. I’m still a .NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. I started on ASP.NET MVC but quickly realized both financially and technically, the platform wasn’t going to be a good decision moving forward.

However I constantly struggle with the question of “am I doing this right?” with many of the patterns I’ve sort of fallen into with Rails.

Have you done code reviews or hack sessions with experienced Rubyists to get their take on your approaches?

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:02:09 +0000

Rails scales just like any other platform, you just need to make sure you’re optimising.

MYSQL is generally the big bottleneck, make sure you’re indexing properly.

Use Fragment Caching to cache parts of pages that don’t change often.

Have your DB run on separate dedicated boxes.

Reduce page load times by using CDN’s for static content, minify js & css into single files.

There’s a huge amount you can do, blaming Rails & saying that it’s no “scalable” is rubbish.

What rails is not good for is concurrent processing, you can use RabbitMQ to delay jobs etc. But that’s not the point, it allows you to get your ideas out quicker & then figure out the scaling problem when you actually have one :)

By: Aymeric

Aymeric — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:47:35 +0000

I saw a railscast about LESS (http://lesscss.org/) and I like the concept a lot (especially the possibility to use constants in css)

(My css in TaskArmy is not complex enough to justify the use of an extra tool at the moment though.)

I will definitely look into haml, hopefully my IDE (RubyMine) will handle the new syntax.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:20:14 +0000

Way to go Aymeric! Glad to hear it’s going well. Did you check out haml & sass?

By: Aymeric

Aymeric — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:14:37 +0000

These guys seem to have gotten over that issue at some point:

http://storecrowd.com/blog/top-50-ruby-on-rails-websites/

I can’t wait to have this scaling problem you are talking about!

(I would probably have hit this problem in my facebook applications but it would have been reduced thanks to using Heroku)

Do you have some horror stories you could share?