Comments on: Impressions of Ruby on Rails from an ex J2EE developer (me)

By: joe

joe — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:50:24 +0000

http://snippets.dzone.com/tag/ruby – also worth a look

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By: rudy

rudy — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:04:58 +0000

Some other notables;

http://railscasts.com/
http://railsforum.com/
http://www.railsbrain.com/

By: sjs

sjs — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:52:56 +0000

Funny, I recently started using Emacs for the first time and found the Rails support there (emacs-rails on RubyForge) superior to the Rails bundle for TextMate. The only thing I miss is the TextMate footnotes plugin.

By: Josh Jacobs

Josh Jacobs — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:42:45 +0000

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for your reply to my email. I was secretly hoping you would post your response to your blog.

I’ve been spending more time than I should this week distractedly browsing Ruby sites and playing with tutorial code. In general, I think I have a cursory understanding of why Ruby might matter to me. In particular, every time I have to fix old Cold Fusion code I marvel at the speed of making changes, and cringe at the horrible syntax and lack of OO. But it makes me realize just how burdensome Java can feel.

Enter Ruby. As the owner of a small shop, politics aren’t an issue. For me it’s just a question of legacy support. My perspective alternates from, “capitalize on the existing investment” to, “don’t write any more of that verbose Java code just because of the past–if you don’t sidegrade now, it will only be harder later…” There is plenty of new work planned for the Java platform, and I’m just not convinced that continuing in Java indefinitely is a good long term approach.

I’ll try to carve out some time soon to get a Rails dev environment going. And I already bought “Agile Web Dev with Rails”, so it looks like I’m on my way.

Thanks again for your response. I’m looking forward to seeing the project that you are building when it is done.