What is Ruby on Rails?

Robby Russell writes "ONLamp.com has published another article by Curt Hibbs titled, 'What is Ruby on Rails?.' In this article, Curt goes on to discuss all the major components of the popular Rails web framework and shows it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. This article highlights all the major features, from Active Record to Web Services, which are going to be included in the upcoming 1.0 RC release of Ruby on Rails. With one book published already and four more on the way, do you think Rails will continue gaining as much popularity in the coming year?" An interesting follow-up to the two part tutorial from earlier this year.

YASLFFFSC

[Anonymous Coward]

Yet Another Scripting Language Framework For Spaghetti code

Summary of thread

[physicsphairy]

"With one book published already and four more on the way, do you think Rails will continue gaining as much popularity in the coming year?"

"Yes." -- some slashdotters
"No." -- other slashdotters

Oh, and your horoscope for today is "Give generously to people you meet online who make you laugh."

What is Ruby on Rails?.

[CSHARP123]

I know this. This is that ruby going on the choo-choo train.

Question about RoR

[fatboy]

Everything from templates to control flow to business logic is written in Ruby

Uh, doesn't business logic belong in the database where the datagnomes live?

Re:Question about RoR

[PhilipPeake]

You have been drinking too much Oracle Koolaid....

Re:Watch the demo...

[fak3r]

Wow - thanks to all that are hitting my site, I'm sitting here at work watching multitail try and keep up with all the requests on my home server! Typo uses Lighttpd (I have Apache2 running, but it's using mod_proxy to pass all requests to fak3r.com to Lighttpd) which is supposed to be 'lighter' and perform much better under load than Apache. I assume that's true because the logs are flying by, and the log from the Typo server is saying things like:

Completed in 0.01254 (79 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00618 (49%) | DB: 0.00146 (11%) [http://fak3r.com/articles/search?q=bsd%5D [fak3r.com]

Am I reading this right? Most are coming up with 10-40 /reqs/second, but damn, this is on a homeserver (FreeBSD 6.0 - 1.2Gig - 512Megs) with a 384/1.5 DSL! I'm doing full refreshes here and not seeing any obvious lag - I've never had this much sustained traffic, but this looks very good for Lighttpd! (only been using it for this blog, which started ~ a week ago). Checking top I see 'ruby' but it's way down there, below multilog/tail and such... Hmm...need to check that migration from Apache to Lighty perhaps! ;)

For those late to the party, that's fak3r.com [fak3r.com]! (just try and bring it down hehe...)

Re:YASLFFFSC

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm just amused that two consecutive posts each labelled you a Ruby fanboy and a Java fanboy, respectively. I'd say their comments reveal more of their own biases than of yours.

Incidentally, I personally am proud to have been labelled, on thse boards, an MS shill (in spite of the fact I use Linux full-time!); an OSS-zealot (in spite of the fact that I've frequently praised Microsoft on the rare occasion they do something that warrants praise!); and an Apple fanboy (in spite of the fact that I'm not even gay!) ;)

Re:we already know

[Senzei]

True that. You can't bring up anything related to web apps without some rails drone coming out an spewing how wonderful rails is and that if jesus were a programmer, that's what he'd be using. /yawn

Which, as we all know, is an outright lie. If jesus were a programmer he would write a lisp routine so advanced that A) only god could actually understand it, and B) he would just have to think about a website for it to be written.

After all, if I were jesus, that is what I would do.

What is Ruby on Rails? Ask Googlism!

[Watts Martin]

Google on "ruby on rails is":

Ruby on Rails is awesome.
Ruby on Rails is a relatively new Web application framework built on the Ruby language.
Ruby on Rails is the first startling example of this trend.
Ruby on Rails is way over hyped.
Ruby on Rails is finally a bullet point!
Ruby on Rails is NOT a new programming language.

And, definitively, from Joel on Software:

If you don't know whether or not Ruby on Rails is a good tool, give it a try yourself. Most smart people I know love Rails.

Don't you want to be a smart person?

[Disclosure: Yes, I actually do like Ruby on Rails from what I've seen. It's fun to bitch about the hype, but most of the bitching is much less well-informed than the hype being bitched about. "If you can't convince me in five minutes that I need to drop everything and learn this, obviously there's no value to it!" Yeah, uh-huh. Some people compensate with fast sportscars, some with Java frameworks, I guess.]

Re:Rails and legacy databases

[CodeMunch]

I'd mod you up for PURR but my mod points just disapeared. I'd mod you down for RAPR but my mod points just disapeared. ;)