Rolling With Ruby On Rails

Bart Braem writes "The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails at ONLamp, building a simple application that even non-Rubyists can follow."

Comments

Interesting, but VB.NET is better

[Anonymous Coward]

Ruby doesn't have FlexGrid ocx which basically makes it useless for database apps.

Code, Snort, Code, Snort

[MrAsstastic]

Back where I am from, using rails all night to code a project can land you in trouble with the law, drain you financially and mentally, and leave you with a nosebleed. Best stay away from this nonsense.

Re:Ruby

[ggvaidya]

That's actually "-1, Redundant", but as of right now, your post is precisely at "1, Redundant"! Good call! :D

Re:Useful Ruby Online Resources (categorized)

[geoffspear]

Thanks. That should help if google gets slashdotted and we can't find information on our own.

Re:why onLAMP?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we change our name to onLAM{P,R} now?

How about LAM3R?

Re:Ruby

[ReeprFlame]

Figured that may be the case. Rubies and Perls are all gems!

It's just a pity

[Metteyya]

I like Ruby, even before I got to know Rails. The only thing I regret is that LAMR sounds really bad.

I develop webpages with LAMR - imagine saying something like that ;).

Re:It's just a pity

[legirons]

"imagine saying I develop webpages with LAMR ;)"

The alternative being serious, professional names like Plone, Drupal, and Zope?

I worked with him too

[Anonymous Coward]

He ate his feces in meetings, when I knew him. Drove people nuts. This was when he was fresh out of college so he's probably mellowed since. You could always tell which laptop was his though, from the stains. Very nice guy though.

Re:REST Web Services w/Client-side XForms

[ahem]

You know, the parent probably isn't a troll, but it sure reads like one to me. I guess I'm just too far away from the state of the art over here. I've lost my buzzword compliance.

But... But... There's IIS!

[MooseByte]

"If you are using Windows though, looks like this could be very useful."

Only if it can match the stability and security of IIS that we've come to depend on. Otherwise it's just another shoddy product built by communists for communists.

FlexGrid?

[ackthpt]

Ruby doesn't have FlexGrid ocx which basically makes it useless for database apps.

FlexGrid? FLEXGRID?!?!

Implementation of FlexGrids is responsible for extreme stress, male pattern baldness, genital warts, dry heaves, infertility, webbed toes, seeing spots, loss of super powers, carpal tunnel syndrome, diarrhea, dandruff, dispepsia, gas, fingernail rot, yellowy wax buildup, stink foot, Plantars warts, incontinence, communism, crusty boogers, arthritis, bursitis and and cooties. The only treatment is 500mg of Dammitol, fiftytwo times a day.

You, sir, are a maniac.

Empire Builder?

[ackthpt]

Thats interesting. Never heard of Ruby before but it seems very useful especially with the DB integration.

Rabid Empire Builder (and Euro Rails, British Rails, Russian Rails, Iron Dragon, Lunar Rails, India Rails, Australia Rails, Nippon Rails, etc.) fan that I am, I saw the title and thought immediately that Ruby Rails was the next game from MayFair which would somehow bridge programming and empire building at the same time. Alas..

you rolled a 1, ha!, didn't compile!

One Click Instalation

[davi_slashdot]

1. Download the latest One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows (shown in Figure 1). As of this writing, the latest is ruby182-14.exe).
2. Double-click on the downloaded executable and follow the installation instructions. Unless you have some special needs, just press Enter to accept all of the defaults.

Believe me guys, no hype at all :-).

Re:Nice framework...

[MightyMartian]

Hoo boy! He're we go. Another shot across the bow in the never ending OOP Wars of Religious Supremacy. Back away ten paces, ready your Smalltalk and C++ code and come out firing.