Ruby on Rails studio alumni
I just completed a great training course for Ruby On Rails (RoR), a revolutionary framework for web developing. The course was in Boston (MA) and was held by the authors of the notable book Agile Web Development with Rails.
I personally have quite some experience with ‘traditional’ web development using ASP.NET and J2EE. Having experimented with RoR myself and gone through additional training, I can now say for sure that RoR is definitely easier and more productive than these (and at the same time making it easy to get great quality and maintainability). RoR also compares very favourably against PHP according to the many PHP developers I meet during the course.
According to the guys behind the Rails Studio training course for Ruby On Rails: “Nothing says ‘I’m ready to write killer Rails apps’ better than a Rails Studio alumni button”. So here is the button I got:
May 18th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Please tell me (us) more about some of the IDE’s. Could you compare to Visual Studio with Pro’s and Con’s?
May 19th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
There are plenty but most are still beta-quality (I guess the situation will be different in 6 months or so). Two examples:
Eclipse based ruby and rails IDE (beta). This is what I use. Good but not without bugs/limitations. This is what I would recommend. And it is free!
http://www.radrails.org/
Ruby development enviroment plugin for Visual Studio (beta). Don’t know if this supports rails directly.
http://www.sapphiresteel.com/
May 19th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
As to the comparison, it is a bit like comparing apples and oranges. Try it and we can talk about it later.