Ruby on Rails

[DJ]

[C-Note]

[prasanth]

[DJ]

[DJ]

[oneelephantpickle]

[DJ]

[prasanth]

[jay]

What is Ruby?

Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language with a super-clean syntax that makes programming elegant and fun. Ruby successfully combines Smalltalk's conceptual elegance, Python's ease of use and learning, and Perl's pragmatism.

What is Rails?

Rails is an open source Ruby framework for developing web-based, database-driven applications. There are dozens of frameworks out there, and most of them have been around much longer than Rails.

Installation.

Ruby can be installed on a linux server and will support MySql Database.

It's better that we install and check it's features.

[Sreedhar]

I have worked a bit on Ruby, but not on Ruby On Rails, but RoR is considered to be a robust development framework and gaining momentum.

[oneelephantpickle]

There is a new avatar of PHP now called Cake PHP, the story goes that some of the Ruby on Rails concepts so impressed the PHP community that they decided to use them in PHP; its called Cake PHP.

Cake php carries forward the benefits of ROR; like rapid development of web application

[Sreedhar]

pickleman, the advantage of RoR is that it carries with it the famous ease of use, flexibility and power what Ruby have - which makes it a class apart - from wht I have heard so far.

[DJ]

Do we have anyone in the company with an opinion on PHP CAKE or Ruby on Rails? Would it be practical for us to develop in that?

[Sreedhar]

[oneelephantpickle]

i think its wrong to typecast ROR and say its ideally suited for social networking websites; why its been using extensively in Social scene like Twitter is it makes the repetitive task a breeze. Check out the website below for feel of websites done on ROR;


The main advantages of ROR are

1. agility, rapid application development, gets the work done faster
2. Shorter development cycle
3. very seo friendly
4. Reduces dependation on repetition.

But its ultimately for the programmers to join the discussions here and add to the tribal knowledge of the company.

Some really neat websites done with ROR

http://www.costablancapropertyportal.com/
http://www.castlepinesvillage.com/press_releases
http://www.beautyheaven.com.au/

This is one is e-commerce website with a pretty advanced functionality and shopping cart done in half the time it would take to do it in PHP; but

http://www.silkfair.com/

A whole bevy of website in ROR

http://www.workingwithrails.com/browse/ ... e-commerce

If php has embraced all these advantages in Cake Php then it should be worth exploring.

[Sreedhar]

My saying was not to typecast RoR, but I was talking about frameworks in general.

[C-Note]

I've heard some pretty good things about Ruby, although i have never really seen it

Think it should definitely go on our R & D schedule of to-dos

[Sreedhar]

I just happened to discuss with a friend who is a RoR expert. Here are some of his observations:

It is extremely simple to manage, gems are very helpful, all applications are portable, stable, and expandable. The RoR community is great and helpful. Rails framework enforces consistency in style and encourages code reuse. Very easy to maintain code quality and standards.

[DJ]

I think this is certainly worth exploring further. I know that apps like this one http://www.basecamphq.com/ are built off of ROR. They run very slick and smooth.

Problem is finding resources to learn it! I do think from what i here the result would be a lean, more problem free, easily manageable system.

[Sreedhar]

Here is a list of for those who are interested.

Find the here.