Good article raganwald. I'm just learning RoR and I guess my biggest hangup is the prodigious use of colons. I admire your ability to "rewrite code for Ruby".

Good article raganwald. I'm just learning RoR and I guess my biggest hangup is the prodigious use of colons. I admire your ability to "rewrite code for Ruby"... For me it's tough enough to learn one language. There is no way that I would ever attempt anything but a greenfield application with RoR and to finish that I will probably need some help. What attracted me to the language was the impression I got from reviewing descriptive materials from DHH and the 37 signals crew that Ruby has a great deal of elegance when it comes to interacting with databases. And, for me anyways, that's the only kind of elegance I'm really interested in because I think that's where the money is going to be. So far I'm not really good enough with the syntax to say whether it's going to live up to expectations but I haven't really seen anything yet that would cause me to say I've made a mistake in choosing this platform.