Web development with Ruby on Rails? Here I go

Yesterday I found myself learning a new programming language. At the same time found my self learning a new framework for building MVC based Web applications.

It was some quite time ago I didn’t learn a new programming language or framework the way I’m learning this one. The last I can remember it was J2EE. Before that it was Java. The others, which I also know a bit, were learned in the hard way, by experimenting, such as C++, C#, PHP or Javascript. Now, with my twenty eight years, I’m really excited by learning this language and framework. Just for fun. I’m getting anxious the put my hands on a real world application, now for Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is in the mouth of the world by now, so why don’t I have a shot also? I love programming, thought in couple last years I been set aside, to do some bureaucratic work and other stuff. Programming is the way I see thing born from my own hands, it’s like having a little baby (not that way)

Anyway, I’m religious reading this book, and so far so good, the book is written as the authors are speaking to me directly, the way I like it. Ruby? A script language that do all the magic for you. The best way to describe it is:

Try it and surrender yourself.

Rails? Convention over configuration. And of course DRY. This is a beauty thing of Ruby on Rails. You can do an entire Web application without a line of configuration. Really, now I think: f***k all those configurations, and mappings files for Hibernate and J2EE done in XML. You in Ruby on Rails write less lines of code than lines of XML configurations when in a common J2EE application.

Going for next chapter… bye.

Written by j.pereira on February 3rd, 2007 with 4 comments.
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