Rails Day 2005 a Success! 26
zestyalbino writes "Rails Day 2005 has finished! In total, there were 55 entries that qualified. Descriptions and downloads are on the site. For those of you that don't know, Rails Day was a contest to see what websites entrants could come up with in just 24 hours using Ruby on Rails."
Next year (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Next year (Score:1)
The same thing is true for the Programming Ruby book: it's a clear understandable book on object-oriented programming that uses a friendly pseudocode called "Ruby".
I think that you make an important point here. Aside from their use in allowing us to control the behaviors of complex computing machines, programming languages facilitate the recording of and communication of algorithms and data. The "friendly pseudocode" attribute of the Ruby language makes it particulary useful from this perspective.
Some links from the Railers (Score:4, Informative)
Mark Windholtz [blogspot.com] - Member of Team 32.
Jim Weirich [onestepback.org] - Member of Team 8.
Re:Some links from the Railers (Score:1)
Britt [lukewarmtapioca.com] & I (Jesse) [overstimulate.com] are in Lexington, KY and participated!
I know a Louisville guy in rails, we should do a get rails meetup!
Rails (Score:2)
I'd be interested in recommendations for Java frameworks which can provide similar productivity, however. (Much as I like Ruby, it's still a tough sell in the corporate world.)
Re:Rails (Score:2)
I'm glad I work in a company where they just ask me to write the app and don't really care what it's written in. I could write my apps in APL, though they might have kind of a problem with that after the fact. If I had to ask to use Ruby, they'd probably say no, no one else uses it, but if I say "I wrote it in Ruby", they'll hear "I wrote it" first, then I just tell them th
Re:Rails (Score:2)
There's also the issue of who can maintain the application after I'm gone. There's something to be said for having a solution that runs on a RAIJP array (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Interchangeable Java Programmers).
Re:Rails (Score:2)
First of all, I nearly spit coke into the keyboard.
Secondly, ain't that the truth. I design software for a living, and instead of designing for a platform, or a CPU architecture, I have to optimise for maintainability. So I design to a RAIJP.
In a Fortune 500, they make sure they have lots of replaceable cogs in the machine, so I have to design to the LCD.
how to sell Ruby in the corporate world (Score:3, Funny)
Re:how to sell Ruby in the corporate world (Score:1)
success (Score:1)
i tried a version a few months ago and it didn't work all that great with PostgreSQL...
Re:success (Score:2)
Re:success (Score:1)
still, i find it a bit worrysome to let a web framework handle all database stuff for me.
Re:success (Score:1)
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http://www.basecamphq.com/ [basecamphq.com] Tens or thousands of users
http://www.backpackit.com/ [backpackit.com] Thousands of users
http://www.43things.com/ [43things.com] Big enough for Amazon to care
This is of couse ignoring all the private rails apps used internally by some pretty decent sized companies.
Rails scales amazingly well on lighttpd with fcgi Apache with fcgi does a pretty good job as well.
You can run it on Linux, FreeBSD, Windows Server 2003 and just about any other respected(I use
Some demos to try (Score:1)
rails day projects to try [robbyonrails.com]
I'm feeling trollish... (Score:2)
1. The libraries are thoroughly tested.
2. It's easier to deploy.
3. I trust the underlying stack.
But I learned a LOT from rails, and I use rails-style controllers and models in PHP, although I handle the relations manually. I think rails is a reminder of what a good application of design patterns gives you, but it's not the be-all and end-all.
Oh, and I did my own "PHP day" mad scramble with the idea I had for Rai
yes, you are a troll (Score:1)
besides, Ruby is far better and expressive a language than PHP.
Thanks for trollin back... (Score:1)
But PHP is expedient. If it gets the job done quicker, with less headache, while still letting me use best practices and design patterns, I'm all for it, obnoxious function naming be damned.
Re:Thanks for trollin back... (Score:1)
still letting me use best practices and design patterns
<sarcasm>yes, putting related code and classes into discrete modules and explicitely importing them or declaring ( locally scoped ) variables.
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