Ruby on Rails
Published: June 21st, 2006Oh, a web-development framework at its infancy, oh jolly green jodgers jolly!
Lately I’ve been trying real hard to get to understand this new craze for a web framework, Ruby on Rails.
Ruby in itself is a beautiful object orientated language. I really am impressed with how it is.
I’ve been involved with php for a long time now, but no matter how long I’ve tried to learn it - I was never able to learn it to the point where I could just code things off the top of my mind. I was knowledgeable enough to get around my way with scripts, and edit what needed to be. But I was just not a programmer with php, more of an “editor”. I don’t know why this was, but that’s just how it was with that language. It just didn’t make any sense to me.
Ruby on the other hand, is just such an easy language to read that it actually makes sense. Since I am naturally good at english, Ruby is naturally my ideal language, at least so far. I don’t know Ruby that well yet, but things can really get easy to read. It’s quite amazing.
Now what about the online web development part? Well that’s where Rails comes in. Ruby on Rails is like the gravy of all frameworks, at least in my perspective. It’s building up so much potential lately that people are looking at it as a successor to Java. That’s a preety big thing to realize in this industry.
So far I’ve built a couple basic apps with scaffolding and some minor customization, but nothing to great right now. My big complaint is that since it’s fairly new in gaining such immense popularity, there is only a few ways to start learning this framework without intense sessions of experimentation. But even then, people like me, need real examples before they can actually start to learn things.
So that’s my problem right now. Hopefully in a month or so a bunch of new information will be coming out to explain things more in depth, I still have a little bit to read and play around with before I get stuck. I know the people in the IRC channels will be there to save my ass in case something goes crazy.
I can’t wait to go into the AJAX abilities of RoR but before I do that I want to get acquainted with the basics even though I hear it’s preety easy to use the AJAX features.
Ready. Set. Go.
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