Ruby on Rails

Ruby’s been a language I’ve wanted to try for some time now. Jon Udell’s reference to Ruby on Rails finally did it.

Ruby is close to Python and cleaner than Perl. Not a hard language to pick up. But Rails is the killer app. While everything has been done elsewhere Ruby on Rails remixes the techniques in such a fashion that it really works! A couple things that impress me so far:

• Setting up a Rails application is sooo smooth you don’t even need an IDE
• Database stuff is so cleanly done that you are freed up to think about what it’s supposed to actually do.
• I’ve been through the whole MVC thing before (java, etc.) but with Rails it is a good bit easier

My only gripe is I wish I had this with Python…