josh

You MUST have heard of Ruby on Rails, or RoR. Those who are using twitter have experience using it. Its an object oriented programming method. Have you learned it?

Oh no the hype is on me too, especially when the local Chip mag introduced it. Is it worth learning? Do I need to dump PHP and start learning RoR?

These are my questions, waiting for answers and advises XD

Cheers, and Happy Chinese New year to fellow chinese :P

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Aziz

I still don't know what RoR is, is it a programming language like PHP or what?

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Ikki

I have heard of Ruby on Rails but haven't experimented with it yet. I'm also a bit curious about it.

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Kyle

Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is often referred to as "Rails" or "RoR". It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology, which is often utilized by web developers for its suitability for short, client-driven projects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails

I might have to look into this actually!

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josh

So nobody' used it before XD
Not much a big deal?

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BoneIdol

I've used it a little; I've not done anything much in it but I've had a good play with it.

Ruby as a language is pretty fun, it's about on par with Python for pleasure to code. It's touted as some all singing, all dancing replacement for perl but the interpreter is really slow and the language has naff all support for unicode.

The rails framework is the main web development framework and it's a pretty solid implementation of MVC. RoR is pretty much what started the craze of all web development frameworks using MVC (not that that's necessarily a bad thing).

The RoR community is just over-bearingly smug and they tout that RoR is super scalable (as of when I tinkered with it, RoR didn't actually have any features to help it scale). The main advantage of the language/framework is that you can fling websites together super-quick once you've got your shit together, and as such it is very popular with more-or-less-doomed web startups. If you can find a job doing RoR you'll probably get a fair bit more money than PHP or ASP, but good luck finding the damned things.

Cal Henderson (one of my programming heroes, he made b3ta and is an engineer at flickr) comments a lot on ruby on rails in his presentation last year about django - 'Why I hate django'. I seriously wanna try django at some point because Python is so much fun.

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