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Posted by Michael Vilain on 08/29/07 14:09
In article <46d55ff1$0$239$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Willem Bogaerts <w.bogaerts@kratz.maardanzonderditstuk.nl> wrote:
> > Situation:
> > A client of a friend of mine asked me to take over a project done in
> > Ruby. (The original programmer appearantly behaved like an @ss and his
> > client wants to get rid of him.)
> > The project is done in Ruby on Rails.
> >
> >
> > I have 0 experience with Ruby, but consider myself a reasonably seasoned
> > programmer (php/java/vb/basic perl/javascript).
>
> I have zero experience in Ruby on Rails as well, but I have had a few
> introductions. Ruby is an object oriented language, so if you use object
> orientation in your other languages, this will be familiar. Just the
> mixins are different. But not rocket-science-difficult as far as I know.
>
> If you have experience with unit testing, Ruby on Rails will be an
> enlightenment. If you don't like unit tests, prepare for a hard time.
> The Ruby on Rails system is designed to guide you to "good programming".
> You may have to learn to love it...
>
> > Does anybody know how much time I should expect to spend to get 'on
> > rail' with Ruby (Ruby on Rails)?
> > The language claims to be easy and intuitive and even fun. :P
> > (But do you know of a language that says of itself to be hard,
> > counterintuitive and absolutely NO fun?)
>
> Apart from BrainF*ck (see http://bluesorcerer.net/esoteric/bf.html) and
> intercal (see http://catb.org/~esr/intercal/), I would not know of any...
>
> > How does Ruby compare to PHP?
>
> As Apple to PEAR probably ;) No. Just kidding. Ruby is quite legible and
> "purely" object oriented. You should be able to read it.
>
> > What do you think of Ruby and Ruby on Rails?
>
> If I would need it for my job, I would not object to learning it. I have
> never had the need though. But enough of my friends use it.
>
> Good luck,
O'Reilly has a bunch of books on web technology, including one on Ruby
on Rails. Don't know how you learn best, but I like the O'Reilly books.
I learned CGI, perl, and php programming from them.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529864/
http://www.oreillynet.com/catalog/rubyrails/
http://www.oreillynet.com/catalog/rubyckbk/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0975841955/
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