Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

What do you see as the true business benefits of node.js ?

I think the most touted is that you can have a single language on client
and server which is definitely a time saver. I've only read about node.js
and haven't used it yet.

Well I've played a bit with Ruby and didn't find it all that compelling.

The language alone probably isn't enough to compel. It's the "whole
package" that starts to make you scratch your chin and say "well, I might
just spend this Saturday digging deeper".

I've spent the past couple years developing a lot of RPG web/mobile stuff
from scratch, so I am a little wide-eyed by the plethora of integration
points the RoR community has created. I don't know if it is enterprise
ready, but it is definitely "internet startup" ready which is where I
believe it gets the most use.

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Robert,

What do you see as the true business benefits of node.js ?

Supposedly you can build server apps based on Javascript, but really do
you want to :-) ?

It is an interesting concept though much like WebSockets, but I am not
banking any commercial development on it at this point. At least not yet .

If you're into Websockets, check out http://socket.io

We continue to hire younger staffers, but they always have to hear trhe
history lessons from us old guys :-)

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message: 8
date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 18:15:52 +0000
from: "Dean, Robert" <rdean@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

I agree with this, but node.js is the technology I would like to see.
Unfortunately, I think that'd be quite an effort because it's based on
Google's V8 JavaScript engine and there's a lot of x86 specificity in that
codebase.


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