RAD with Ruby

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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Comments

Why Ruby?

[Anonymous Coward]

With so many other languages out there, why bother with Ruby?

Perhaps an example would be best.

http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/AccessControlLis tE xample

NOTE: In the above example, the Model Code (just a handfule of lines) is what creates all the database-mapped classes and relationships. In other words, the implementation of functions used in the Example Usage were created on the fly!

If you haven't done enough object-relational mapping using other languages to be blown away by this example, then here are 37 other reasons:

http://hypermetrics.com/ruby37.html

Ruby Home
http://www.ruby-lang.org/

JRuby and RDT

[Headius]

As long as we're dumping Ruby links, I must plug a project I work on and a project I work with daily:

JRuby is a 100% java implementation of Ruby 1.8. The most recent release is pretty old, but the version in CVS is shaping up nicely and is getting quite stable. I joined development over a month ago, and work has been rapidly ramping up.

The Ruby Development Tool aims to bring a full Ruby develop/test/debug environment to the Eclipse platform. It is also rapidly maturing, and may in the future use portions of JRuby for parsing and debugging. While using or developing JRuby, the RDT is a welcome companion, allowing me to stay within Eclipse when developing both Java and Ruby.

I would also recommend tracing back to previous Ruby posts on /. for more information and links.

There is only one guide to Ruby...

[Copley]

You have to read this. It's more than an intro to Ruby... It's a mini adventure!

Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby

Those foxes! That cat! The crazy goat!