Ruby On Rails

2005.09.09

Guest post by Mahangu Weerasinghe

Sam focused quite a bit on shrinking code, and compared Ruby to Javascript at various points, showing how the former did basically the same thing using significantly less code. I’ll be posting more on it as I get in to it over the next few days.

Ruby On Rails, which powers tools like Basecamp, will be talked about extensively at tommorrow’s RoR tutorial. If you’re wondering what RoR is, the homepage is a good place to start.

All in all though, it’s been a long day and we’re off home now. Expect more updates from the tutorials by Sam Ruby and Greg Stein tommorrow.

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  1. Brian McCallister

    September 9th, 2005 at 7:04 pm

    Ruby (the language) is really nice. Ruby (the Sam) seems to be to, but I’ve had less experience working with Ruby than with Ruby =)

  2. Mahangu

    September 11th, 2005 at 8:49 am

    Brian,
    Thanks for the heads up. I think what I like most about Ruby (from my limited knowledge) is that you can call methods on almost anything. Talk about great OOP! :) The interactive command line execution is also very useful. Can’t wait to try it out.

  3. Alex black

    March 1st, 2006 at 10:28 am

    I used to head this big php pseudo-appserver project called binarycloud, we ended up porting some of the cool stuff from it to Rails, and now all turing development is done on Rails.

    It’s not perfect, there’s plenty of stuff that sucks, but it’s still a heeeeeeeeell of a lot better than anything else I’ve used.

    App deployment needs some help - hand managing FCGIs, even with a cutesy thing like SwitchTower, is a pig PIA. With PHP under Apache, it doesn’t exist as a problem.

    ;)