November 19, 2008 2:05 PM -
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Ruby hailed as economic solution, offering smaller investment and less risk —

Advocates for the Ruby programming language on Wednesday hailed its usefulness as an enterprise application development option, especially in a down economy.The Merb framework for Ruby also was championed, during a session at the QCon conference in San Francisco. Speakers also defended Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework against critics citing slow performance and scalability problems.Ruby serves as an alternative for companies seeking more affordable software development, said speaker Greg Pollack, CTO at Rails Envy, which offers Rails-related services."With Ruby, I can write less code to do more things, and I can probably give them a more affordable option,"...
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