Ruby on Rails

I’ve gotten behind! Hooray for rapid-fire postings!

I’ve known about it for a while now, but I only got my copy of Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson a couple of weeks ago now. I’ve since dived right into RoR, and I must say… the more I learn about it, the more impressed I become. It seems like the most elegant and simple way to write web applications I’ve ever encountered. This all stems from the DRY principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself). DRY says that every bit of application logic should be expressed only once in your code. Models form database objects that are very smart (they know their associations with other objects, they can validate themselves, etc).

I could go on and on about RoR, but instead I’ll just drop you a few links:

• Official Ruby on Rails site
• Interesting RoR Blog
• Amazing AJAX Helpers for RoR
• Sparklines lets you dymically build graph images with RoR
• Another Great RoR Blog
• The beautiful blogging engine that many of these sites are using