Ruby on Rails
Monday, February 28th, 2005I’ve been meaning to learn Ruby for a long time. It’s built a reputation as a language that you can build programs with incredibly quickly, so I wanted to add it to my skillset. The best way to learn a new language is to actually use it to do something, but as Mike Loukides points out it’s awfully hard to do it when you need the problem solved now.
The first program I was going to write to learn Ruby was a resume generator. It was supposed to take a resume, in XML, and generate either a LaTeX, HTML or Word version. That was two and a half year ago. Shortly after I started, I got a job, and hence the need dropped dramatically.
Recently Ruby on Rails has appeared on the scene. It’s supposed to take Ruby’s speed of development and elegence to web application development. O’Reilly has written a tutorial for Rails, so I took this opportunity to pick up Ruby again.
