Rails and Trails
Posted by Doug Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:46:57 GMT
Chris Nelson is a fellow Fusion Alliance employee and the author of Trails. He’s speaking at OSCON and wanted to try out his presentation on local interested parties. I was glad to listen because I’m interested in his Trails project and how it correlates to Rails.
As his stated goal is to provide “Domain Driven Development” to Java and drastically reduce the amount of work to produce CRUD apps, I’m impressed. If I were a Java developer, I’d be happy to use something like this to make my apps a lot easier to write.
If I had to choose between Rails and Trails, I’d choose Rails. It really comes down to preferring Ruby over Java. My background is in C and Perl. I prefer dynamic languages. I prefer loosely typed languages. I like Ruby’s iterators and mostly functional nature. I really like Ruby’s module_eval and class_eval. Like Lisp macros, it’s kinda ugly but really nice when you need it.
I’ve said before, much of Rails’ attraction is that it’s built on Ruby. I certainly wouldn’t be interested in PHP on Rails. I could live with Perl on Rails. I’m impressed with Java on Trails, but uninterested in using it.
