Martin Fowler on Ruby

Daniel Butler — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:59:00 -0400

Martin Fowler, well known in the OO, Patterns, and Agile world, has written a short article about whether Ruby is ready for the mainstream yet, and whether you should be considering it for your projects. He writes,

It’s still early days yet, but I now have a handful of project experiences to draw on. So far the results are firmly in favor of Ruby. When I ask the question “do you think you’re significantly more productive in Ruby rather than Java/c#”, each time I’ve got a strong ‘yes’. This is enough for me to start saying that for a suitable project, you should give Ruby a spin. Which, of course, only leaves open the small question of what counts as ‘suitable’.

Read on for some personal thoughts on Ruby and Ruby on Rails, as well as some bonus graphs from Google Trends.

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Martin Fowler on Ruby