Ruby on Rails
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I was wondering if anyone can offer their thoughts on how much of a learning curve I'm going to run into with Ruby on Rails? I normally do mostly .NET development (some java) but, we are going to be taking on a new client at work and will most likely be using Ruby on Rails to develop a website (many features ie. video, podcasts, blog, uploadable content, dynamic content, etc). I've never done any ruby before and wanted to get some feedback on the type of learning curve I can expect coming from a .NET background?? Appreciate any feedback guys, thanks.
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
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I was wondering if anyone can offer their thoughts on how much of a learning curve I'm going to run into with Ruby on Rails? I normally do mostly .NET development (some java) but, we are going to be taking on a new client at work and will most likely be using Ruby on Rails to develop a website (many features ie. video, podcasts, blog, uploadable content, dynamic content, etc). I've never done any ruby before and wanted to get some feedback on the type of learning curve I can expect coming from a .NET background?? Appreciate any feedback guys, thanks.
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
Nothing quite like trying it yourself... in your browser! http://tryruby.hobix.com/[^]
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
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I was wondering if anyone can offer their thoughts on how much of a learning curve I'm going to run into with Ruby on Rails? I normally do mostly .NET development (some java) but, we are going to be taking on a new client at work and will most likely be using Ruby on Rails to develop a website (many features ie. video, podcasts, blog, uploadable content, dynamic content, etc). I've never done any ruby before and wanted to get some feedback on the type of learning curve I can expect coming from a .NET background?? Appreciate any feedback guys, thanks.
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
php is like classic ASP with a lot more power. Having never used ROR I can't give you an specific guidelines but all of the PHP people I know seem to swear by it. Of course they never do anything outside the box either. edit: Yes I know Ruby != php it just seems that everyone I know that does PHP migrates to RoR so I assume they are similar.
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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Nothing quite like trying it yourself... in your browser! http://tryruby.hobix.com/[^]
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
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php is like classic ASP with a lot more power. Having never used ROR I can't give you an specific guidelines but all of the PHP people I know seem to swear by it. Of course they never do anything outside the box either. edit: Yes I know Ruby != php it just seems that everyone I know that does PHP migrates to RoR so I assume they are similar.
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
ruby is the language ... rails if the framework more like python with django fyi :)
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One of the motivations for Ruby was to be a "better Perl." I uess this means that devs coming from a Perl background would find Ruby a more natural fit than Python. Nonetheless from my [very limited] experience Ruby and Python are fairly similar.
Kevin
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I was wondering if anyone can offer their thoughts on how much of a learning curve I'm going to run into with Ruby on Rails? I normally do mostly .NET development (some java) but, we are going to be taking on a new client at work and will most likely be using Ruby on Rails to develop a website (many features ie. video, podcasts, blog, uploadable content, dynamic content, etc). I've never done any ruby before and wanted to get some feedback on the type of learning curve I can expect coming from a .NET background?? Appreciate any feedback guys, thanks.
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
Ruby on Rails is pretty neat. Having been familiar with lot of web technologies it was easy for me to pick up. I will recommedn Dave Thomas's Pragmatic Programming with Ruby on Rails to get you started. Ruby itself is pretty simple to grasp. There is another book on the subject which introduces Ruby and Ruby on Rails which I found pretty good too was Ruby for Rails[^]. I don't think it is a very difficult thing to learn and you can master it pretty soon with practice.
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Nothing quite like trying it yourself... in your browser! http://tryruby.hobix.com/[^]
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
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I was wondering if anyone can offer their thoughts on how much of a learning curve I'm going to run into with Ruby on Rails? I normally do mostly .NET development (some java) but, we are going to be taking on a new client at work and will most likely be using Ruby on Rails to develop a website (many features ie. video, podcasts, blog, uploadable content, dynamic content, etc). I've never done any ruby before and wanted to get some feedback on the type of learning curve I can expect coming from a .NET background?? Appreciate any feedback guys, thanks.
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
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Ruby on Rails is pretty neat. Having been familiar with lot of web technologies it was easy for me to pick up. I will recommedn Dave Thomas's Pragmatic Programming with Ruby on Rails to get you started. Ruby itself is pretty simple to grasp. There is another book on the subject which introduces Ruby and Ruby on Rails which I found pretty good too was Ruby for Rails[^]. I don't think it is a very difficult thing to learn and you can master it pretty soon with practice.
Thanks for the book recomendations, I meant to ask if anyone could recomend a good book on Ruby. :)
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison