by Scott on November 18, 2006
I’m here at The Rails Edge Conference in Denver and will summarize some of the talks. Let me take a moment to put in a personal recommendation for this group of speakers and the Pragmatic Studio conferences. They are a professional group who put on a well run conference. Highly recommended.
Building UI Frameworks – Bruce Williams
Bruce talked about the pain that views impose on developers and how to help yourself in the Rails environment avoid some of the pain. Bruce noted that this is not a Rails problem or an MVC problem, it is just a fact that views are hard to deal with. They mix a developer and designer’s frame of mind in a single place which makes for frustrations and challenges.
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by Scott on November 18, 2006
I’m here at The Rails Edge Conference in Denver and will summarize some of the talks. This topic is of interest only to those interested in Ruby or Rails, so if that is you – read on. If not, please disregard.
Active Record Demystified by Marcel Molina Jr.
Rails Core Team member Marcel Molina Jr. presented a walkthrough of ActiveRecord::Base#Save ActiveRecord::Base.find as part of the “Active Record Demystified” talk.
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by Scott on November 17, 2006
I’m here at The Rails Edge Conference in Denver and will summarize some of the talks throughout the conference. This topic is of interest only to those interested in Ruby or Rails, so if that is you – read on. If not, please disregard.
Dave Thomas – Buried Treasure
Dave gave a great talk on a ton of little things that all add up to make Ruby and Rails a great environment in which to be working. He covered things such as using svn, the console, handing Strings, Arrays, libraries, blocks, TextMate, and irb. Too much good stuff to mention here!
Scott’s Take
If you are a Ruby on Rails developer, get yourself to the next The Rails Edge.
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by Scott on November 15, 2006
Tomorrow I will be attending the Day 1 of The Rails Edge series presented by the good folks at Pragmatic Studio.
Choice of Language and Framework
Our company is solidly behind web applications as the future of software delivery, especially as Internet connectivity becomes ubiquitous. We are also commited to Ruby on Rails as our development environment of choice. Nothing else has met the speed of development and, more importantly, the joy of development than that which I have experienced with Ruby and Rails. We have developed (but not yet deployed) our first application using Rails.
You can read more about Ruby and Rails in my review of David Black’s book Ruby for Rails.
Choice of Business Model
While choice of language is largely a matter of personal preference, choice of business model is a result of studying the industry; especially looking at other software companies’ experiences in the both product markets and services markets.
Products or Services?
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by Scott on July 17, 2006
Ruby for Rails
is a must have for Ruby on Rails developers.
While you could develop Rails applications without understanding Ruby, to do would completely miss out on the reasons Rails was created in Ruby. Ruby is a powerful and enjoyable language.
For those of you that do not know of David Black, here is a part of the bio from his book: “A Ruby community leader, David Black is the director of Ruby Central, the parent organization of the annual International Ruby Conference (RubyConf) and the International Rails Conference. David is a Ruby core contributor and the creator and maintainer of RCRchive.”
The reasons that I think you must know Ruby to become an effective and efficient Rails programming machine:
1. To understand the Rails source code
2. To make your Rails apps do something beyond pushing data in and out of a database.
3. To take advantage of “Ruby everywhere”
4. To use Ruby for non-Rails tasks (automation).
5. To enjoy developing Rails apps!
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