The two web frameworks Rails and Grails are the web developers at the moment everyone's lips. Rails has spoken with his paradigm of "Convention over Configuration" (pronounced as little XML as possible), many developers from the heart.
But as a Java developer you had to take Ruby and learn to do without his beloved libraries and self-created classes. The Java-based Grails has closed the gap here is not just a Rails clone, it also provides the developer with the use Groovy to give a dynamic scripting language without stability, which ensures the use of proven frameworks Spring and Hibernate.
The Google feature search insights can be determined as a certain trend to use these two frameworks. So there are a lot more searches than for Rails for Grails.
The Rails web framework is the scripting language Ruby, the killer feature. It shows the queries that have increased steadily until 2007, but currently stagnating.
Grails searches for the rise since 2007 (and especially since the 1.0 release) is slowly but steadily.
Particularly interesting to me but the regional distribution of searches for Grails and Rails. Thus, in the German-speaking Switzerland, Germany and Austria to number 2, 3 and 4 in searches Grails. For queries on Rails, we are but rather in the middle, far behind Ireland.
If you look at what is sought to Grails, stand on the first 3 places and the Java scripting language Groovy Grails is based on those. Then the question immediately comes to support Grails with Eclipse. I notice also in the access statistics for my contribution to this subject.
Conclusion: Based on the searches you can find only a trend for the current use of Rails and Grails. A crucial role will be the support of the development environments. Here, experience with the Eclipse support for Grails much done. However, one must also say that IDEA currently provides the best support for Grails.Whether you use Rails or Grails will now have to decide for themselves. The concepts behind these two frameworks are, however, forward-looking.
December 19th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
A statement is wrong because: you have a Java developer libraries not to abandon his self-syntax can be mixed.
I will be working in a project with the JRuby. The application runs on WebSphere and passages are used in Java, Rails does not (eg the call of prepared statements).
Regards
Erhard
December 20th, 2009 at 9:02 am
With JRuby I have not worked, so I take the statement back to you. Can I also use JSP tag libs like DisplayTag?