Add selected quotes about RubyOnRails here:
- Ruby is a programming language that actually makes the end-to-end development of a system fun, and Rails is a superbly designed framework for developing web applications with Ruby.
— John Wilger
- So, umh, Ruby on Rails is awesome. Wow. Really wow. Even if you have no interest in using it, watch the ten minute intro video. Wow. It really works just like the video.
— Brian McCallister
- I’m absolutely floored by how fast I’m developing with Rails. Stuff that would have taken me over a week in Java + WebWork2 + Velocity + Hibernate has taken me a little over a day with Rails. I’m not even going to try to compare it to my current client’s project which requires Struts.
— Anoop Ranganath
- makes php look like assembler
— pdkl (IRC)
- when rails works she is like a sports car covered in hot babes
— mrpotatohead (IRC)
- ActiveRecord is our savior: We had a mess of a ruby script that was borking for a huge client. We converted it to activerecord in about 9 hours. 1300 lines of mess into 335 lines of beauty and about 1/6th the db load.
— bougyman (IRC)
- Rails is not your run-of-the-mill, proof-of-concept web framework. It is the next level in web programming, and the developers who use it will make web applications faster than those who don’t; single developers can be as productive as whole teams. Best of all, it’s available right now, under an MIT license. I believe that there hasn’t been an improvement in productivity like this in recent programming history.
— Curt Hibbs (Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2, page 3)
- To explain Ruby on Rails, I could say it is a highly integrated model-view-controller type web application framework. That would be like saying a Ferrari is a 4 wheeled internal combustion vehicle: true, but misses the point.
— teidou (slashdot.org)
- XML is like violence, if it doesn’t solve your problem you’re not using enough of it.
— Anonymous
- Inside every bloated PHP/JS/DOM app, there’s a lean Rails app waiting to escape.
— Cyanshade (IRC)
- Ruby on Rails is astounding. Using it is like watching a kung-fu movie, where a dozen bad-ass frameworks prepare to beat up the little newcomer only to be handed their asses in a variety of imaginative ways.
— Nathan Torkington
- Not trying to super hype it but I could see RoR’s merits when it comes to simple dynamic web sites. Big corporations will not adopt it fast enough and for a good reason. There is a reason why so many companies are still using Struts.
— Neeraj Kumar (http://neeraj.name)
- Rails is Rails because of Ruby
— David H. Hansson
These quotes are nice but try not to hype it up too much. It is better to under-promise and over-deliver than the other way around. (I was under-stating my position. -teidou)