My 'good buddy' Jim has been preaching to me about the benefits of Ruby on Rails for what seems like decades now.
About a month ago, I finally broke down and really started plugging away with my “Agile Web Development With Rails” book (that I bought a few months ago).
I had skimmed through the book and created a few test projects prior to this, but this time I've been really trying to take time and attempt to understand Rails in-depth.
I can say this thus far: WOW! It's pretty amazing and a bit of a change from my PHP experience thus far. I especially like the powerfully tight integration of Ruby and AJAX.
If you are interested in Rails, I'd pick up the book I mentioned earlier, it's worth it. If you'd like to know a bit more about the tight integration and power of AJAX & Rails, check out this article I stumbled across earlier today.
Excerpt:
is in overdrive. The Ruby on Rails framework is also flourishing,
partly on the strength of its excellent Ajax integration. Find out what
makes Ajax on Rails such a powerful combination. –> Link
December 7th, 2006 at 8:43 am
Glad to hear that you're finally coming around. Don't be surprised if you start liking PHP less and less as you learn more Ruby. Just a warning…
December 7th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Yeah, I know PHP is on the way out. I'm not sure if Rails is the “future” or the replacement for PHP, but it sure seems cool. Have you ever heard of CakePHP? I've been playing around with that too.
Has the same MVC idea as Rails, but in PHP. It's pretty cool.
- dustin
December 8th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Speak English! English!!!