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Rolling With Ruby On Rails

Posted by michael on from the keep-those-doggies-rolling-rawhide dept.

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."

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  1. TMTOWDI by ryantate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perl has its own rapid application development framework, Maypole. Here are some screenshots from a Perl.com article where Simon Cozens sets up an online sales catalog in 11 lines of code. (Here's a followup article, and the Maypole home page.)

    These systems all demo well because the developer gets to decide what functionality to demo, and it not coincidentally happens to be the functionality the framework was designed to easily support. The real test of the system comes when you want to do something the designer did not anticipate, and you find out how flexible the system is and how sensible the designer's instincts are.

    With these environments I think time will tell, with most developers watching the few willing to take the risk of investing the time needed to learn the framework and how to customize it extensively.