Ruby on Rails
I’ve finally found the time to teach myself a little bit of Rails. It’s really quite a nice framework and there’s plenty to learn. I’m going to use it for our private archive of family videos, with a CRUD interface for me and videos to browse through for my family.
Being that RoR is an instant immersion in Rails methods, it doesn’t feel like I’m learning much Ruby at all. But I suppose I am.
It’s finally starting to get fun. I’ve spent many hours watching screencasts and reading articles, tentatively poking at my new Rails install. I’m ready to poke harder. This is the same old shit, just perhaps, better organized and conceived? The RHTML feels a lot like PHP and the object data model is similar to Perl’s CGI::Application (and probably 100 others). It sort of has some of the best features of a lot of frameworks rolled into one. I’ll have to report back later if I notice any particular advantages or limitations to RoR that haven’t made themselves obvious yet. So far, it seems to be living up to the hype.
Here is where I am keeping a collection of Ruby on Rails resources.