A crush on ruby on rails part 1

I have had this e-book, Programming Ruby(The Pragmatic Programmers Guide) for quite sometime now. The eventual purpose bieng, to read it and familiarize my self with another programming language. Anyway an year had passed, i never did open that book. The book is now in its second edition.

Then last week, i was going throught some ajax tutorials on Max Kiesler’s Blog.I came up with alot of material about rails and it convinced me to check it out. So at first i googled Ruby. Its currently ranked 12 in the TIOBE Programmin Index. I went to thier website, downloaded the 1-click installer. The Offical Website defines ruby as:

“A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.”

I skimmed throught some tutorials on thier website about ruby. Once i had a general idea about ruby i decided to move on to rails. So i googled rails and went to thier Official Place on the Web . The site defines ruby on rails as:

“Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. it lets you write beautiful code by favouring convention over configuration”

I would like to add to the intro, Ruby on rails strictly implements MVC ( models, views and controller) which i am relatively new to, and is in the process and studying.

The tutorials on the site proved very useful as a first step. Namely, Rolling with Ruby on Rails: Part I, Part II. Another great helper was Amy Hoy ((25)slash7), The blog have alot of entries about ruby on rails that i found of great value. Anyway, these ware enough for me to get ahead start with rails. And believe it or not i was building database CRUD web applications with the rails framework in just one day. And hence the CRUSH!!

I have now aquired the book “Agile Web development with Rails”. . I just started on the book, and will post more on ruby and rails as i learn. And it remains to be seen weather the crush will lead to an undying love.