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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.
A really poor name for what seems to be a great development environment.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Pontification. Ruby is a joy to work with. Get your hands dirty before making worthless posts.
No. This is exactly what I mean ... how arrogant. There are a zillion languages out there. I don't want to sepnd all my time learning languages and frameworks, I already know dozens, I wnat to spend my time doing things. So far, it just looks like antoher layer, even after glossing over their "why use ruby", it still looks like another layer. In fact, the url likned to looked more like high level propaganda with sparse documentation with lots of quotes like "Rails is the most well thought-out web development framework I've ever used". Let me be the judge of that, please. If they're right, they have nothing to proove.
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
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken