Evaluation: moving from Java to Ruby on Rails for the CenterNet rewrite

This document was written by Rick Bradley as part of their IS Applications group’s process of (re)evaluating platforms for deployment of a large-scale healthcare application (“the CenterNet rewrite”—discussed on the Rails mailing list). This evaluation document was prepared in September of 2005 and is therefore already out of date technologically—a number of the perceived shortcomings of Ruby On Rails have been eliminated, alleviated, or mitigated. For instance, we found to our surprise that it was trivially simple to deploy Rails on Windows and to automate build and testing.

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