Life on Rails, the fast track
Posted on by Steve Workman About 1 min reading time
This is going to sound like a sales pitch for Rails, I'll admit, but if I like something, I'll shout about it from the rooftops. So, lets talk about my current phase. Welcome to Ruby on Rails...
I was introduced to Ruby on Rails at Genesys by Elliot. It all started when he wrote the 6 hour speed coding challenge in 20 minutes. Then I watched this video:
Amazing isn't it. So, I got cracking at it. It took me a while to get it set up on OS X but I followed this tutorial: http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html from apple and everything was set up. With textmate installed everything was organised, syntax highlighted and databases hooked up. Ruby is a Model View Controller language. Everything you do is a method. Calling generate creates skeletons that are very simple to edit. It's got templates built in to it, unit tests, it's super fast and... just amazing. Sorry, it's late. Zero brain power.
So, I pretty much want to try and develop USE v4 in Ruby. It'll be a great test and it'll probably make me a better programmer.
Enough of this. I'm off to bed
Steve
Currently Listening to: Muse - Black Holes and Revelations Currently Watching: American Dad Currently Eating: Jammy Dodgers Currently Reading: Agile Web Development using Rails