I’ve heard lots about [Ruby on] Rails over the last sev­eral months, but never really both­ered to find out what it was about/what it did dif­fer­ently until today, when their web­site was fea­tured on Style­gala. Yeah, pro­cras­ti­na­tion takes strange forms — I found myself inex­plic­a­bly drawn to the con­tent of this web­site, with a desire to dis­cover every­thing about this system.

Okay, not quite.

I saw a link to a video, and went and viewed that.

It was inter­est­ing, sur­pris­ing, astound­ing. The “Rails Acad­emy” con­tains a series of video tuto­ri­als, of which I have watched only one that demon­strates how to cre­ate a (rudi­men­tary) blog sys­tem in under 15 min­utes, with some­thing like 60 lines of code. Oh, and you get used to the accent in the video pretty quickly.

I’m really impressed. I’m almost afraid to start using it, because I think I’ll like it so much that there’ll be prob­lems with deploy­ment when web hosts don’t have Ruby/Rails installed! Hope­fully I’ll have more to report on this front in a few months time.

Tags: Ruby, web hosts