Ruby and Rails Ecosystem White Paper

Interesting, but quite anecdotal.

For example, this:

"The fact of the matter is that Java, currently with the dominant market share in the enterprise, takes too long and costs too much in both development time and opportunity cost."

Where did this info come from? What studies? Why should I believe this, in a report that favors Ruby, written by a Ruby consulting company?

I ask not to call into question the integrity of anyone at InfoEther, but it is exactly these sorts of claims, made against various languages (including Ruby), without any real tangible, verifiable support, that need to be examined.

I mean, it feels true, and I'd love to believe it, but I'd much prefer that any claims made about programming come with solid evidence.

Mildly interesting overview but I'm not sure it achieves it's purpose of making "mainstream business audience—laypeople ... understand the phenomenon of the Ruby language"

I thought this was cute: "In its required annual filings in 2009 with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Microsoft listed both the Ruby language and the Rails framework as significant competitors."

Well, I think this white paper goes a little overboard, but I might point some customers and potential customers to this PDF anyway.

I love Ruby as a language (I have gone from roughly 50% Common Lisp, 50% Java to using Ruby for about 1/2 my projects - all in a 3 year time period). Just a matter of letting go of the desire for great runtime performance :-)