Hi all -
Hope this isn't a duplicate posting; there's an article by David Mertz
on Ruby+Rails on IBM devWorks here:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-rubyrails/
David also did a Cerise article earlier this year:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-cerise.html
Yours,
Tom
Er, no he didn't, that was Koen Vervloesem. Doh!
tom
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:12 -0400, Tom Copeland wrote:
David also did a Cerise article earlier this year:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-cerise.html
Ruby on Rails also just got a bump in the JavaLobby newsletter out today. Rails excerpt follows:
Ruby on Rails is a powerhouse
I didn't get to spend much time at the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium here in Research Triangle Park this past weekend, but one noteworthy session I did get to attend was Dave Thomas' presentation about "Ruby on Rails." I was amazed as I sat through the 90-minute presentation watching Dave knock out feature after feature of a real-life web application in record time and with more compact code than any I had previously seen. The Rails developers seem to have carefully considered the recurring pattern needs of web apps, and the framework provides full functionality for a typical database-backed CRUD (create, read, update, delete) application in a matter of minutes. Rails uses intelligent reflection to map database tables to Ruby objects, and the apps you generate with the Rails scripts form a very reasonable foundation for extending and customizing to meet your specific needs. Unit testing is built-in by default, as is a full web server for testing and debugging. The next time you need to get the job done very quickly you may want to try out Ruby on Rails for yourself. I don't know enough yet to say how much it can scale, but Rails is quite clearly a major step forward for those who want web application development to be easier. Dave has a new book in beta, check it out here.
On Jun 15, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Tom Copeland wrote:
Hope this isn't a duplicate posting; there's an article by David Mertz
on Ruby+Rails on IBM devWorks here:
Tom Copeland wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:12 -0400, Tom Copeland wrote:
David also did a Cerise article earlier this year:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-cerise.html
Er, no he didn't, that was Koen Vervloesem. Doh!
But he *has* written a book on Python; it first struck me as an odd touch that the names in the address book were Pythonistas. Then I saw why.
James
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