Rails has been getting a lot of buzz lately, and quite a few people have been joining us on irc as a result. However I’ve noticed an interesting tendency among Java bloggers when they talk about rails.

They seem determined to look for any fault, any crack in what’s presented and seize it (often violently) as proof that rails isn’t a silver bullet that solves all problems. Well, of course it isn’t a silver bullet, nothing is. Fred Brooks prooved that a long time ago. Rails isn’t a silver bullet, but neither is your favourite java framework.

Fundamentally it’s all a matter of choosing the technology that best suits your particular requirements. If that’s rails, cool, if it’s Spring and Hibernate, that’s cool too. Most technologies have a place, if it seems like a religious choice to you, perhaps it’s you that has a problem…