breddy.net » rails http://www.breddy.net Personal and professional weblog of Chris Bredesen Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:31:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My First Rail http://www.breddy.net/2006/05/02/my-first-rail/ http://www.breddy.net/2006/05/02/my-first-rail/#comments Tue, 02 May 2006 12:58:43 +0000 chris http://www.breddy.net/?p=27 Continue reading →]]> I finally got a little time last night to check out Ruby on Rails. I have been hearing the hype now for over a year and I was pretty certain it would live up, and I’m here to tell you that it does. As a J2EE developer I respect OO design and and well thought-out conventions. Ruby embraces both and delivers a slick little setup that lets you get a data-connected webapp running in minutes.

The nice part is that with one install, you get the Ruby language along with Gems, the package manager. Gems works a lot like Yum does for linux, and with one gem command, you get the complete rails package, including a little webserver called WEBrick. RoR passes the 10-minute test with flying colors.

I followed along with one of the recommended tutorials before I hit the sack, and I found myself lying in bed running through use cases for my new score. Damn I’m a geek.

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