What is Ruby on Rails?

Robby Russell writes "ONLamp.com has published another article by Curt Hibbs titled, 'What is Ruby on Rails?.' In this article, Curt goes on to discuss all the major components of the popular Rails web framework and shows it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. This article highlights all the major features, from Active Record to Web Services, which are going to be included in the upcoming 1.0 RC release of Ruby on Rails. With one book published already and four more on the way, do you think Rails will continue gaining as much popularity in the coming year?" An interesting follow-up to the two part tutorial from earlier this year.

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Summary of thread

[physicsphairy]

"With one book published already and four more on the way, do you think Rails will continue gaining as much popularity in the coming year?"

"Yes." -- some slashdotters
"No." -- other slashdotters

Oh, and your horoscope for today is "Give generously to people you meet online who make you laugh."

Re:Watch the demo...

[fak3r]

Wow - thanks to all that are hitting my site, I'm sitting here at work watching multitail try and keep up with all the requests on my home server! Typo uses Lighttpd (I have Apache2 running, but it's using mod_proxy to pass all requests to fak3r.com to Lighttpd) which is supposed to be 'lighter' and perform much better under load than Apache. I assume that's true because the logs are flying by, and the log from the Typo server is saying things like:

Completed in 0.01254 (79 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00618 (49%) | DB: 0.00146 (11%) [http://fak3r.com/articles/search?q=bsd%5D

Am I reading this right? Most are coming up with 10-40 /reqs/second, but damn, this is on a homeserver (FreeBSD 6.0 - 1.2Gig - 512Megs) with a 384/1.5 DSL! I'm doing full refreshes here and not seeing any obvious lag - I've never had this much sustained traffic, but this looks very good for Lighttpd! (only been using it for this blog, which started ~ a week ago). Checking top I see 'ruby' but it's way down there, below multilog/tail and such... Hmm...need to check that migration from Apache to Lighty perhaps! ;)

For those late to the party, that's fak3r.com! (just try and bring it down hehe...)

Re:we already know

[Senzei]

True that. You can't bring up anything related to web apps without some rails drone coming out an spewing how wonderful rails is and that if jesus were a programmer, that's what he'd be using. /yawn

Which, as we all know, is an outright lie. If jesus were a programmer he would write a lisp routine so advanced that A) only god could actually understand it, and B) he would just have to think about a website for it to be written.

After all, if I were jesus, that is what I would do.