Ruby on Rails Applications
Another important fact that I didn’t mention in my previous post, but I’m frustrated to find out now is that, compared to PHP, Ruby on Rails applications are really hard to install and set up and the troubleshooting is not always easy. After a few days of messing up with Mephisto I’m still struggling to install a photo gallery that runs was made with ruby on rails. While almost any PHP applications requires a predefined PHP account and a working URL, ruby applications doesn’t come up with a configuration script or GUI, which turns out as a major drawback. I’m dealing with installation of Gullery, a ruby on rails photo publishing program. I’ve lost like 5 hours on troubleshooting and hacking through ruby, gems and rake. If you take a look at Google for “Application error: Rails application failed to start properly” you get about 29.600 results, it’s scary and shows clearly the immature state of Ruby on Rails as a web development platform. However, no one argues about the potential that it has and beauty of the code produced, without mentioning that compared to PHP is far more secure.
Let’s pray that RoR developers will make it a bit more easy to install their applications in the future for us, users.
