Robby on Rails: Rails development in 2006...

Rails development in 2006...

Robby Russell — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:53:00 -0600

It’s been almost a year since Curt Hibbs article, Rolling with Ruby on Rails was published on ONLamp. Since then we’ve witnessed this huge community of talented individuals emerge . Wow. What a year.

Your Thoughts?

Will 2006 be an even bigger year for the Rails project? Will we see more development firms emerge with highly talented Rails developers? What is everybody doing currently and what are they planning on doing? Conferences… books… fun… fun… fun.

Viva la Argonistas!

At PLANET ARGON, we’re in the middle of a complete reorganization of how we can be of better service to you. As of the start of this year… we are bigger, better, and you’ll likely notice some new faces. Who? We’re not telling (quite) yet. ;-)

What I can promise:

RAILS DEVELOPERS. RAILS DEVELOPERS.

I wish you all the best in 2006!

Continue to stay tuned…

"Rails development in 2006..." by Robby Russell

Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:27:42 -0600

“Front-line firms such as Planet Argon will be a large factor in shaping business’ opinion of Ruby on Rails this year.”

I’m flattered to have PLANET ARGON mentioned. I do think that you are right. The next step in Rails adoption is for the right development teams to step up and drive Rails into Small to Enterprise sector in a much bigger fashion. We’re doing what we can do help be part of that success. :-)

"Rails development in 2006..." by Chris

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:28:50 -0600

I’ve got to put my .02 in …

I am thinking that Rails will succeed if hosting services start to offer optimized installations in their shared hosting plans. Sure, there are a lot of Rails-friendly hosts out there but if a customer has a relationship with a host that they do not want to leave and that host is unwilling to take the necessary steps to let them host a Rails app … customer/developer will seek alternative solution.

Don’t get me wrong … I am all for Rails. I’ve been pouring over the PickAxe and Agile Rails books and want to use Rails for a majority of our projects this year … but hosts need to jump on board.

In a big way.

-Chris

"Rails development in 2006..." by brasten

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:52:11 -0600

You’re going to start to see the rank-and-file Java developers (such as myself) moving to Rails in larger numbers. The .NET folks won’t make any noticable shift to Rails until 2007.

All of this is good. I think 2006 will be the year that Rails sinks-or-swims in the CIO-opinion space. Front-line firms such as Planet Argon will be a large factor in shaping business’ opinion of Ruby on Rails this year.

"Rails development in 2006..." by Lawrence Oluyede

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:17:20 -0600

AFAIK, Rails in the 2006 will continue to grow (hopefully) and will gain popularity among LAMP developers and so-called enterpise developer. I’m a Python developer but I don’t see (quite) anything except Rails in my web stuff :)

Go on guys :)

"Rails development in 2006..." by csn

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:25:36 -0600

Rails in 2006? Why, 1.1 at the very least!