RAD with Ruby

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 6, 2004 @12:35AM from the i'm-big-in-japan dept.

Amit Upadhyay writes "KDE's award winning integrated development environment KDevelop, has integrated support for Ruby, an excellent and easy to use object oriented scrpting language. If you are looking for a good programming tool for quickly developing a professional one off application, Ruby (with KDE bindings) maybe just the thing for you. There is a quick tutorial and an online book to get you started. You may also want to read a quite informative comparison of Python with Ruby. If you are web developer or write enterprise applications with JAVA etc, take a look at Ruby on Rails(api), they have a nice blog too. KDevelop provides a GUI builder and Debugger for rapid application development(RAD) with Ruby, which is getting better. There is a nice tutorial on using KDE libraries with Ruby. And if you have lots of code in C/C++, extending Ruby to use them is easy.
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I LOVE JAVA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-06 00:41 · Score: -1, Flamebait

ARE WE SHOUTING or is JAVA an acronym now?
JAVA == Joining Applications Via API
JAVA == Judicious Appliance of Voice Aggregation
Oh, well. What do you expect from a non-technical site.
Re:Ruby seems on the right track. by Pxtl · 2004-12-06 02:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Clear and succinct XML - is that like the joke about the smart blonde, the dumb blonde, and Santa Claus being in a car wreck?

XML is a verbose and ugly monstrocity and I am continually perplexed that an ostensibly intelligent and self-motivated industry like the opensource software world could get taken in by the hype machine.

Compare to projects like YAML or even a friggin .INI file, which are functionally the same as 99% of the uses I see of XML.