Ruby on Rails vs Your Java Stack
I’m fascinated by the discussions around Rail’s feasibility as a language. First off, the possible implementations are wide open, as if any platform should work everywhere all the time.
Second, its amazing how small the number professional Ruby programmers are to the number of Java programmers. Take a look at this O’Reilly chart. The number of Ruby book purchases are super small compared to Java.
This tells me there isn’t a coming wave of Rails in the enterprise, and that the Rails community is small, but vocal.
Don’t use book sale numbers to eschew Rails, just keep in mind the net is amplifying the discussion around Rails. In fact, I would go further to say the net is changing the way we use and evaluate software. Rails will probably be adopted faster than any other language in the history of computer science, due to better distribution and more information sharing.