Ruby on Rails
We always enjoy looking at new technology, especially technology that's potentially poised to revolutionize the markets that we work with.Anytime a technology can claim that it makes developers happier to be at work AND it appears to make the general "day-to-day" work of programming less tedious AND it makes claims that it's faster to develop in than the leading 800-lb gorilla, I'm interested in hearing about it.
A business partner of mine has been using Ruby to develop some test cases for one of his clients, and is using it as a prototype for future work that we may be able to expand upon for other clients (specifically, monitoring of remote systems and building test cases for other software packages using Ruby). He just finished up his first week-and-a-half with Ruby, and has nothing but good things to say about it.
He thinks that spending a few weeks to convert some of our internal software, and potentially moving most of (or all of) our clients over to Ruby, could be done quickly, and with an extremely fast ROI. More fascinating is that future "features" to our software could be done faster than are currently being done.
Even so, most of Ruby's current attraction is from a group called 37Signals, who employs the creator of Rails. Rails is Ruby's "crowning glory", as a framework that wraps up most of the best of the Java frameworks, plus some, into a single framework. Some useful Ruby on Rails tips can be found here.
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