Question

I am ASP.NET developer from last 5 years and still loving it. There are lots of good voices in air about Ruby on Rails. I want to ask to community, Is there any worth trying to learn Ruby On Rails as a ASP.NET web developer on following point of view.

1. Scalability
2. Documentation
3. Community Support
4. Hosting Solutions
5. Deployment ETC.

Answer 1

I’m now in your shoes, because I’m learning RoR after commercially developing in .NET for 5 years. Here is my two cents:

1. Scalability: I believe that rails can scale quite well, there are numerous options available, such as mongrel clusters on linux.
2. This one is a bit worse than on .NET. But the community is very good and you’ll never find yourself searching for a good way to go.
3. See above (it is excellent)
4. Hosting is not a problem: numerous hosting options available.
5. I find transition from development to test and then to production better thought of in Ror than in ASP.NET.