From PCWorld.com… Less is more for Ruby on Rails, inventor says
Don’t expect much to be added to Ruby on Rails this year. When David Heinemeier Hansson gives an update on version 2.0 of his Web application framework at its user conference in September he’s as likely to talk about what’s coming out as what’s going in…The goal is to keep Ruby on Rails fast, lightweight and easy to use, characteristics that have helped it become a trendy alternative to Sun Microsystems Inc.‘s Java and Microsoft Corp.‘s.Net, and led to a raft of companies offering Rails development services for businesses.
Ruby on Rails is not only trendy alternative; Rails is growing much faster in adoption relative to Spring and .NET.
I list Spring as it is growing substantially faster relative to J2EE, Java EE, and even Java, according to Indeed IT job trends as well. To back this up, some grid players have plans to only support Spring going forward instead of J2EE/Java EE. This would be in addition to .NET.
Anyway, Ruby on Rails is nearly the de-facto growing preference for basic Web development. For more than basic Web development, then Spring and .NET frameworks come into play. Spring and .NET now offer or will offer Rails support via JRuby on Rails integration in Spring and the evolving IronRuby/Ruby.NET for the .NET framework. Etc.
