I’m very interested in Ruby and have been playing around with Rails quite a bit. It’s amazing how much easier it easy to create fairly powerful web applications.
I’ve found a nice blog by Rick Bradley on moving from Java to Rails.
One of the problems I’m facing right now is that RoR offers very tight integration ala ActiveRecord into the backend and the view/controller are somewhat tightly coupled together – in the since that I’d like to use a pure XML over HTTP backend for some of the web components. I’d really like to integrate to existing web services at the web side and only use rails for certain backend capabilities that don’t exist in the Java tier today; this way I can leverage the best of both worlds.
It seems like there might be another lightweight alternative to RoR for Java – called Rife. Rife is pretty impressive too and pure Java. The other advantage of Rife is that it integrates into Spring.
One of the things that probably irks me the most about Ruby is the licensing. It’s either GPL or some bulleted list of constraints. This guy should follow RoR and just make it MIT style.
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