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Finalist Ruby & Java teams in RAD Race 2006

Published by peter February 9th, 2006 in java, ruby.

This year two teams of the company I work for will join the RAD Race contest. Specifically nice about this is that one of the teams will use Java/JAG ( JAG started off life as an internal java focused RAD tool, now available under a GPL license on sourceforge) and the other team will use Ruby/RoR.

Since the contest is supposed to mimic a real development process, with requirements changing halfway it’s going to be interesting to see how Ruby/RoR will hold in such a contest!

Some of the objectives / rules of the contest include:

A database will need to be accessed
No internet available on the teams’ development machines (probably to prevent ‘offshoring’)
The implementation can be a webapplication or a fat client

Last year the contest was won by Xebia, using Eclipse, Spring and Hibernate.

Company statement: http://www.finalist.com/nieuws_full.php?id=87