Ruby Friday
September 8, 2006
What is this Ruby on Rails crap that everyone is talking about? I figured it was time to find out for myself. Ruby is a scripting language which at this point in my investigation doesn’t stand out as much different from many scripting languages I’ve come across. But it seems to be the hot ticket for server side scripting when used with a particular toolkit called Rails. Hence the term “Ruby on Rails”. Watching a quick screencast from the Rails site, I was pretty impressed with the web stuff built in to Rails. The one I saw showed a quick creation of a weblog site with form entries and data retrieval and display all built in to the Rails toolkit. Here’s where I got started:
Ruby: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Rails: http://www.rubyonrails.org/
