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Starting Ruby On Rails: What I Wish I Knew
- ivan 19y agoMy rails (not ruby) experience: The deeper you go the more muddled you are; or better: At the end the ratio of rails and your own or third party code is 1:100 The only helpful thing in rails is ActiveRecord, you can also use separately. Distressful is that ruby and rails are by many people considered as the same thing. Those ROR versus PHP versus Java versus whatever-you-want are simply infantile. Please no flame and good luck :)
- palish 19y ago..Whaaat? Hehe. Sorry but that ratio is way out of whack. There's almost certainly a way to do things the "rails way".
- kingnothing 19y agoI'd like to add that Netbeans 6 M9 with Ruby support is the best Windows / Linux IDE I've found so far. Edit: Link: http://dlc.sun.com/netbeans/download/6.0/milestones/latest/ http://dlc.sun.com/netbeans/download/6.0/milestones/latest/
- adamdoupe 19y agoHave you tried RadRails? I think it was easy for me due to familiarity with eclipse.
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- crescentfresh 19y agoIt's funny how the article uses parenthesis and brackets as examples of unneccessary 'cruft' that muddles your program's readability, yet to explain a common 'Rails-ism' the author re-introduces both of them into the sample code to make it more readable.
- kalid 19y agoI'm the author :) Yeah, Ruby certainly has some quirks, especially coming from a C/Java background. I think it's similar to seeing i++ for the first time... you need to separate it into "i = i + 1" when explaining it to newcomers.
- Psyonic 19y agoThese are all very valid points, although when I started I didn't have much trouble picking them up quickly. Still, a good resouce for beginners.