Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Room for Both?

Wayne writes "Ruby on Rails is a relatively new Web application framework built on the Ruby language. It is billed as an alternative to existing enterprise frameworks, and its goal, in a nutshell, is to make your life -- or at least the Web development aspects of it -- easier. This article will contrast the Rails framework against a typical J2EE implementation using common open source tools that are regularly found in enterprise applications."

Re:Python will kill Ruby

[CatGrep]

ruby is just too obscure!

Damn! Wish I would've known that before I decided to learn Ruby because of all the good things I was hearing about it. But now you tell me it's obscure! Man, I feel so betrayed by all those people who were telling me about how great Ruby is. I had no idea all those people (some with some pretty impressive credentials like the Pragmatic Programmers, the creator of Ant, etc.) were trying to lead me astray. My coworker was showing me how much more productive he was programming in Ruby - was that all just an act? Well, it just proves that you just can't trust anyone these days, eh? Damn!

Ruby is just too secure

[Colonel Panic]

ruby is just too obscure!

And this, of course, is what makes Ruby so secure.