Ruby on Rails, C# Use on the Rise
August 29, 2007
Europe also is likely to see an increase in the use of the Ruby on Rails development platform in the next year, according to Jonathan Siegel, founder of ELC Technologies in Santa Barbara, Calif., who will be a keynote speaker at the RailsConf Berlin, next month in Germany.
Siegel said he believes ELC has the biggest team of dedicated Ruby on Rails developers in the world, and he views Europe as the next big market for enterprise Ruby application development. In fact, ELC will be establishing a European headquarters in the coming months, Siegel said.
Indeed, ELC has extensive expertise using Ruby on Rails to deploy enterprise and Web 2.0 applications for Sun Microsystems, Cisco, McKinsey, LiveNation, Media Trust and others. Siegel cited such heavily accessed sites as NASCAR.com and FunnyorDie.com as Ruby-built Web 2.0 sites that handle millions of hits per day. Now European companies are looking to leverage the same performance and advantages, Siegel said.
Siegel added that the demand for Ruby on Rails in business-critical applications is influencing the development of Rails itself.
"At ELC Technologies, we have witnessed this firsthand during the development of a number of highly successful client deployments. Ruby on Rails is transitioning from a .Net and Java replacement to an integrative framework that deploys seamlessly onto existing .Net or Java deployment infrastructures. Leveraging existing .Net/Java libraries and know-how marks a key milestone that demonstrates Ruby on Rails' maturity as a commercial framework," Siegel said.