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A question: Could someone tell me which types of application does Rails 4.0 solve, but the older versions couldn't ? In general, which types of application coul
by revskill 13y ago
A question: Could someone tell me which types of application does Rails 4.0 solve, but the older versions couldn't ? In general, which types of application could not be solved by Rails 4 ? Thank you.
- pkroll 13y agoI'm basing this on what I've read, and my experience with Rails 3, so take it with a grain of salt. The type of application you couldn't do in the older one? Easy single-page apps. Of course you COULD do it, writing your own JavaScript or CoffeeScript. But Turbolinks and the Russian Doll caching give Rails 4 a way to get much of the speed of those custom-written apps and yet stay in Ruby/Rails. I don't know of any type of application that Rails 4 CAN'T do, but it's still Rails and Ruby, so anything computationally intense would probably be better served (ha!) by a Java (or Go, or Scala, or...) framework. The further you get from a CRUD app, the less useful the Rails framework becomes.