Rails, Grails, Sails, Nails, Fails...
So this entry might not be entirely coherent... it's Monday morning, don't expect it to make much sense.
This morning I read a message on the Canoo Webtest mailing list, about Grails:
Now, a small side note here. Canoo is, in my opinion, the best end-to-end functional web testing solution currently available, and has been adopted with great success at my company (Watir and Selenium should probably be mentioned here as well). Anyway, point is - I respect the Canoo folks, and when they put their support behind something, that is a good reason to take a look at that project.
Of course, Grails doesn't seem to be the only Ruby-on-Rails-in-Java project (RoRiJ? what a dumb acronym. I promise not to use it again). There's also Sails, and the two projects seem to be aware of each other. And, I'm assuming, there are many others, at varying stages of completion.
What's the point of this rant, completely unrelated on our progress on Duckstein (more on that later :p)? Well, it's two-fold. First, I'm usually pretty skeptical of hype, so I never really took the whole Ruby on Rails deal seriously. I've wanted to check it out to see what all the fuss was about, but wasn't sure whether to expect actually finding anything of substance... but if imitators are popping up left, right and center, there has to be something there. Second, because I want to follow these projects in the future... and if I don't make a note of them somewhere, I'll completey forget of their existence by lunch, at best :p
This morning I read a message on the Canoo Webtest mailing list, about Grails:
The upcoming Grails project will include sophisticated support for Canoo
WebTest.
Grails is an open-source application framework based on Groovy. see
http://grails.codehaus.org .
Grails allows easy defintion of domain classes, views, and controllers from
scaffolded artifacts. For these artifacts, it also scaffolds WebTests, see
http://grails.codehaus.org/Functional+Testing .
Grails is comparable to Ruby on Rails but runs on the Java platform
leveraging the power of J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate. It even works with
existing Java domain classes and mappings.
Now, a small side note here. Canoo is, in my opinion, the best end-to-end functional web testing solution currently available, and has been adopted with great success at my company (Watir and Selenium should probably be mentioned here as well). Anyway, point is - I respect the Canoo folks, and when they put their support behind something, that is a good reason to take a look at that project.
Of course, Grails doesn't seem to be the only Ruby-on-Rails-in-Java project (RoRiJ? what a dumb acronym. I promise not to use it again). There's also Sails, and the two projects seem to be aware of each other. And, I'm assuming, there are many others, at varying stages of completion.
What's the point of this rant, completely unrelated on our progress on Duckstein (more on that later :p)? Well, it's two-fold. First, I'm usually pretty skeptical of hype, so I never really took the whole Ruby on Rails deal seriously. I've wanted to check it out to see what all the fuss was about, but wasn't sure whether to expect actually finding anything of substance... but if imitators are popping up left, right and center, there has to be something there. Second, because I want to follow these projects in the future... and if I don't make a note of them somewhere, I'll completey forget of their existence by lunch, at best :p
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