From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-06-16T11:11:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on Ruby/Rails

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On Jun 15, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Tom Copeland wrote:
> Hope this isn't a duplicate posting; there's an article by David Mertz
> on Ruby+Rails on IBM devWorks here:

Ruby on Rails also just got a bump in the JavaLobby newsletter out  
today. Rails excerpt follows:

Ruby on Rails is a powerhouse
I didn't get to spend much time at the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium  
here in Research Triangle Park this past weekend, but one noteworthy  
session I did get to attend was Dave Thomas' presentation about "Ruby  
on Rails." I was amazed as I sat through the 90-minute presentation  
watching Dave knock out feature after feature of a real-life web  
application in record time and with more compact code than any I had  
previously seen. The Rails developers seem to have carefully  
considered the recurring pattern needs of web apps, and the framework  
provides full functionality for a typical database-backed CRUD  
(create, read, update, delete) application in a matter of minutes.  
Rails uses intelligent reflection to map database tables to Ruby  
objects, and the apps you generate with the Rails scripts form a very  
reasonable foundation for extending and customizing to meet your  
specific needs. Unit testing is built-in by default, as is a full web  
server for testing and debugging. The next time you need to get the  
job done very quickly you may want to try out Ruby on Rails for  
yourself. I don't know enough yet to say how much it can scale, but  
Rails is quite clearly a major step forward for those who want web  
application development to be easier. Dave has a new book in beta,  
check it out here.

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