In the early Rails days a few renowed people rewrote a Java webapp in Rails, and they did it in a fraction of the time and with less lines of code than lines of XML config files. That was about four years ago or something like that.
I can't find a quote for that, web page, book prologue... anyone?
I'm pretty sure that came from Bruce Tate's "From Java To Ruby" (Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers). I think there's a copy hanging around at work, I can probably look it up on monday if you haven't found it then.
Fred
Right :-).
I have the book and have scanned it. It is explained in the section "A Case Study" starting on page 38.
Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland (Java experts, authors, etc.) write a Java webapp in 4 months that took even longer in .NET. They use Spring/Hibernate/WebWork. Then Justin rewrites it in Rails in 4 nights. The application runs even faster. In the book I see no comment about LOCs, but following those hints I could finally get to the original post by Justin
that has some metrics.
Thank you very much Fred!