Article Ruby on Rails

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Sat, 22 Jan 2005

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Several years ago when I was making the transition on from stodgy languages like C++ as my primary coding language I encountered both Python & Ruby. Both languages looked nice, but python had a couple things going for it:
  • English—Ruby’s community at the time was mainly Japanese, thus python had more resources
  • Dive Into Python – This book rocks, I was groking python within hours
  • pygame, NumPy, Blender, zope—all python

My work involves python/zope/plone work, thus my choice of python has served me well, but I have oft wondered about the other side.

I have heard about Ruby on Rails a couple times before, even attempting to set it up once before I realized I had no time and went back to working on zope. While I enjoy zope, it is far from perfect. For small projects, it is fairly bulky; especially now that I have went through Rolling with Ruby on Rails. (interesting that this article is the top result on google when you search for ruby on rails, that was fast)

Ruby on Rails was created for cool project management service called BaseCamp. (He decided PHP didn’t cut it for this project)

I am not sure how well this system scales (compared Zope which has Zeo – Zope Enterprise Objects), although I have project in mind to test it with.

I am looking forward to part two of the tutorial.


 

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