On rails

11 Jul 2005

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.