------ art_44620_26271303.1163219302680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline hi where are you from? what's your msn? i am create a software as a game for super games 2006/11/10, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen / gmail.com>: > > On 11/10/06, Scott <bauer.mail / gmail.com> wrote: > > If you'll still be developing and deploying on a Windows box, you can > > use RubyCLR to leverage your existing C# classes. > > I have looked at RubyCLR but it seems really green. I have not gotten > it working yet because last time I tried I couldn't compile it and > this time it's not working on Ruby 1.8.4 yet. I don't think I can > actually propose it for our projects yet, but I am eagerly watching > it. > > > What is the timeframe for the project? I think you'd be much better > > off spending the beginning of the project getting everyone up to speed > > on RoR than doing concurrent development, since one team will have > > wasted 2 weeks of work when the decision is made. Is > > internationalization support required? > > Timeframe is about 6 months according to marketing, although our > initial estimate puts it at a bit over a year. The faster we can go > the better for us (obviously). A good question is which choice would > make the development quickest. Internationalization is not required > but may be after a few releases. > > If we do the spikes, we'll start with Ruby and see how the others > adapt. If there are serious problems we'll investigate further, or > we'll just start design. > > > > > > Leslie Viljoen wrote: > > > I have the deciding vote in a new (rather large) web app we need to > > > develop. I am experienced in Rails, but the other 2 guys on the team > > > know only C# and very basic Ruby. About 25% of the app could benefit > > > from existing classes written in C#. > > > > > > So I could force everyone to learn ROR, which they may or may not > > > thank me for, or I could learn ASP.NET. I know C# well but have never > > > used ASP.NET. > > > > > > I doubt execution speed would be a factor, since the bottleneck will > > > be in the database and there would be very few concurrent users. We'd > > > make a lot of use of Ajax. > > > > > > So is there any advice? Anything I should take into account? Has > > > anyone done large projects in both environments? > > > > > > Les > > > > > > -- > > > Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather > > > than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always > > > astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from > > > our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the > > > contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has > > > not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist. > > > > > > - Prokhor Zakharov > > > > > > > > > -- > Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather > than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always > astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from > our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the > contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has > not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist. > > - Prokhor Zakharov > > ------ art_44620_26271303.1163219302680--