Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails

The “why” of Ruby on Rails comes down to productivity, says Michael Slater. Web applications that share three characteristics—they’re database-driven, they’re new, and they have needs not well met by a typical CMS—can be built much more quickly with Ruby on Rails than with PHP, .NET, or Java, once the investment required to learn Rails has been made. Does your web app fall within the RoR “sweet spot?”

Slater, Michael. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ruby on Rails

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails

The “how” of Ruby on Rails: Hivelogic’s Dan Benjamin prepares non-Rails developers, designers, and other creative professionals for their first foray into Rails. Learn what Ruby on Rails is (and isn’t), and where it fits into the spectrum of web development and design. See through the myths surrounding this powerful young platform, and learn how to approach working with it.

Benjamin, Dan. List Apart, A (2008). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ruby on Rails

eRuby: Getting Started with Ruby on the Web

Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks as languages like Perl or Python do. Ruby is simple, straight-forward, extensible, and cross-platform portable language that has a syntax that is easy to understand. One of the strengths of Ruby is that it strives to be powerful but not complicated. Ruby has advantage over other OOP languages in that it can be used to code procedurally.

Hiveminds (2007). Articles>Web Design>Server Side Includes>Ruby on Rails