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Tonight I attended the Ruby workshop presented by two of my colleagues. It was a bit more advanced than generating Rails stuff and focussed on interesting Ruby features like:

• mixins
• closures
• operator overloading
• usage of the missing method method
• breakpoints
• unit and functional testing
• a bit of ajax (got to have it in your Ruby and Rails examples)
• migrations

The presentation was code heavy and done primarily using irb; nice!

Afterwards we had a discussion on the advantages of Ruby over Java…. we talked about large development teams and to number of possible ways to do stuff in Ruby versus all nice conventions in Java. We also discussed refactoring and localization. Both topics seem to be a bit problematic when people try to ‘defend’ Ruby….
Conclusion:

Since my hosting company offers Ruby on Rails support I was allready working on some Ruby stuff, and I will cerntainly keep doing so, but I really don’t think Ruby will replace J2EE in corporate environments in the near future.