Re: If you had the choice between Ruby & Groovy

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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Noah Cutler <sit1way / hotmail.com> wrote: > However, one particular issue has me now looking at Ruby: > > When creating a web app. in Groovy, it runs on the JVM in a servlet > container like Tomcat. All is well in terms of having a truly dynamic > application (i.e. make a code change and no need to restart) with the > exception that mixin and parent class code changes are NOT picked up, > which requires a restart. > > This is a show stopper for me. > > Does Ruby have this same limitation, or can one make a change to any > ruby file in an application and have that changed picked up by the > server?? Not out of the box. As Mark has explained there are environments that do this but it's definitively not a feature of the language. You wouldn't want that as default behavior in a language because implicitly changing code makes for hard to track bugs - and it's slow because you need to compare file modification times always or at least on a regular basis. > Give me the good word on Ruby! Ruby is great! ;-) Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/