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Productivity in Java vs. Rails

I am far more productive when writing Rails code than when writing Java. I just realized that one of the reasons for my lower productivity in Java is the need to recompile every time a make a change to a page on the site. In the 15 seconds or so it takes to recompile and redeploy to Tomcat, I get bored and am apt to go check my new favorite news site, popurls, or my RSS feeds, or (less likely) post to my blog. Suddenly those 15 seconds have become 5 minutes. And this happens many times throughout the day.

With Rails, I make a change, refresh my browser, and there it is. On to the next step.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 10:57 am and is filed under geek, rails. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Productivity in Java vs. Rails”

  1. tito Says:
    June 5th, 2006 at 1:21 pm

    I just ran across this rails podcast:
    http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/

  2. brad Says:
    June 5th, 2006 at 1:25 pm

    Thanks. I’ll check it out. Have you listened to it yet? The tech podcasts I’ve listened to have been hit-or-miss. Kind of like blogs, but you can’t just skim it to see what you’re getting yourself into.

  3. tito Says:
    August 11th, 2006 at 9:40 am

    I just checked back on their site to queue up some podcasts for a trip, and I see they offer transcripts to their podcasts (also avail. via RSS). Something all podcasts should have.

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