Re:Top Sites Built with Ruby on Rails
by netcraft on Thursday August 22, 2013 @07:41PM
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we are considering groovy and grails for this sort of reason. I work with lots of enterprise clients who won't consider anything on premises thats not .net or java.
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They won't run Linux-based software but they'll buy into a programming language called "Groovy"! ... LOL ...
why not jruby and rails? rails has a lot more of a community, and you'd still get to run it on java.
I use groovy and grails at work and the only similarity of grails and rails is name.
Grails is a Jvm clone of Rails, and Groovy of Ruby.
I was under the impression that grails is a clone of rails (I think it was actually called rails at one point and they were asked to rename it), but not that groovy is a clone of ruby - I think they have drawn a lot of inspiration from ruby and python, but not that it is a jvm version of ruby - but someone please correct me if im wrong. It seems like it is more about being a scripting version of java itself.
Groovy starte d off that way under James Strachan, but when Graeme Rocher took Groovy over for Grails, he added a MOP just like Ruby's.
Actually, JRuby is a JVM clone of Ruby. And Ruby on Rails on JRuby is a JVM clone of Rails.
I don't know where to start with the differences but Grails is nothing like Rails. The ORM, the naming conventions, configuration, GSPs vs ERB, the way routing works, and pretty much everything else is different. They both use MVC and Grails draws inspiration Rails but is it in no way a clone.