Apple is to Ruby On Rails as Sun is to what?
February 28th, 2006 I see that apple have added a brief "intro tutorial":http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html to "RubyOnRails":http://www.rubyonrails.org. This proves what is quite apparent in the Rails community. Railers love Macs. It's quite obvious though, RubyOnRails development and Mac OS X go well together. The UNIX command line capabilites of Mac OS X work well as an environment to interact with a Rails application. So does the default command-line tools such as *ssh* and *svn*. But mainly its because Mac asthetics complement Web2.0 applications. And Railers are all about asthetics. So Apple need to take this ball and run with it. Become the _sugar daddy_ corporate backing for Rails. A job that Sun does for Java, without all the licensing revenue. So Apple ditch WebObjects and come over all RubyOnRails. First step make sure ruby, rails and lighttpd come ready installed with Mac OS X. Maybe a nice gems maintenance cocca application. The a Mac OS X Rails IDE, come on Apple buy "MacroMates":http://www.macromates.com you know you want to. And then redevelop the Mac site and store in Rails!
5 Responses to “Apple is to Ruby On Rails as Sun is to what?”
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March 1st, 2006 at 11:11 PM
I wonder if the release of this tutorial is at all significant, or if a few guys working for Apple decided it might be helpful for anyone interested and that’s that. I know so little about WebObjects, do you know how it compares to Ruby on Rails?
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:30 AM
I think its Apple’s second article on it and they’ve got to be thinking about it. Great way to sell hardware which is Apple’s business model.
WebObjects is now a J2EE application development stack which will run on any J2EE application server. It integrates with XCode. It has features for developing web applications, Java applets and web services. WebObjects has a object relational mapping tool not too unlike Rails.
The problem is I’ved worked as a J2EE architect consultant for 6 years now and never come across anyone using WebObjects. Everyone is now moving towards Spring and Hibernate solutions, a free open-source stack. How’s WebObjects going to compete with that!
Application servers are now commoditiy items to sell hardware, and Apple could sell more on the back of Rails than WebObjects
March 9th, 2006 at 09:55 AM
Sorry for commenting slightly off topic, but once again, you have made me smile Mr. Eccles with this post and coupled with with Apples processor move it is good to see a growing support for the Apple as a computer for all not just the sterotyped designers, advertising, journalists and copyrighters set.
March 9th, 2006 at 11:44 AM
I know, interestingly enough i saw an article on how Apple is doing well in the SAN storage market.
Apple could do well there. Raided Ipods
May 26th, 2006 at 12:36 AM
WebObjects is excellent technology with a far better design than any of the J2EE technologies, except for the more recent EJB3 and Hibernate stuff, at least for the ORM piece. Tapestry has a very similar design to WebObjects for the creation of the interface, which maintains very clean separation between layout and code.
Also note that WebObjects has been around in basically the same form since 1996, while the Java frameworks are just now coming around to similar design philosophies.
Apple probably should have open sourced it long ago, or marketed it more aggressively, because it really does deserve better market penetration than what it has.