I get around to alot of different forums and often as we do jump onto any buzz words and I can say the Ruby on Rails is buzzing. Still in it’s early stages of adoption many web developers seem to be taking a look at Ruby on Rails with claims of saving hours of development time.
Well with all the hype I thought I would start to investigate it for myself and after a search around the web found a couple of free installs for both Mac and PC. After a quick look at the Mac install I wasn’t game enough to start playing with my Mac in fear of causing unnecessary pain in the event that the install didn’t go through smoothly.
So I dug out the back up laptop and installed in a matter of minutes the Instant Rails install which was pretty simple. In actual fact the extracting the zip file was the longest process but after that it was all go.
After a few basic tests it all proved to be running no problem so now I’m off to the bookstore to get books on Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
The plan now is to install Ruby and Rails on the Mac so I might even do a unedited screen recording of the install for those attempting to go down the same path.
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Given the exponential growth we’re seeing in the number of hosts that support Rails – and my own personal experience with writing web apps with it – I’d say Ruby on Rails will continue to grow exponentially in the years to come. So much more elegant than php or perl – and it really does save you time. Plus, so many people are jazzed about it that cool plugins are being built daily.
Well everybody who is using it says the same thing and I’ve read a tonne of web sites, listened to podcasts, posted on forums and it’s pretty unanimous that everybody loves Ruby on Rails so I’m looking forward to the learning curve.