[ome-devel] Comparison of Hibernate and Ruby Rails

[Chris Allan]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 05:14:03PM -0500, Josiah Johnston wrote:
> When looking something up for Curtis, I ran into an article comparing 
> Hibernate and Ruby Rails.
> 	http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=RailsHibernate
> Ruby Rails offers similar services to Hibernate, but has a different 
> architecture and is written in a different language. Our mapping layer, 
> DBObject, has many parallels with Ruby Rails.

For those outside of Dundee, whom I've shown Ruby and Ruby on Rails to
a few times now, ONLamp has a pretty good article showing off what can
be done with Ruby and Ruby on Rails:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html?page=1

> 
> I'm not proposing that we consider to Ruby Rails as a data store. I'm 
> tossing this article out because it provides a baseline from which to 
> evaluate Hibernate performance and capabilities. This article also 
> helped me gain a better understanding of Hibernate and issues relating 
> to ORM without a whole lot of reading.
> 
> The author, surprisingly, hails from Bethesda.
> 
> -josiah

Ciao.

-Chris