Some of my Ruby on Rails fears...

Marc Palmer as just posted a great article regarding grails, where some of my fears are referenced:


interpreted v.s. compiled (ok, bytecode, the native code is out of this discussion):

Groovy compiles to Java VM bytecode at runtime. It is never, ever, ever interpreted. Period. Never. Did I say never ever? Really.

direct database reference v.s. domain model:

There is also no such thing as a domain model in Rails. Rails models are database tables. This is all well and good, but in enterprises the same domain model is often re-used in multiple applications both desktop and web.