Monday, March 26th, 2007
Today I was scanning my del.icio.us links and came across an amazing new gem for Ruby on Rails called Hobo. It promises to be an “open-source extension to Ruby on Rails which helps you build full blown web applications incredibly quickly and easily.” And, let me tell you, it’s pure genius.
Rails itself is a layer built on-top of the Ruby programming language that offers an “open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.” It’s the perfect foundation for laying another layer on-top. The Hobo People realized this and decided to build Hobo on-top of Rails.
Now that I’ve ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2948/new-ruby-gem-paves-way-for-future-of-web-development
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
It’s no secret that I don’t like Ruby on Rails. My friends know it. My co-workers definitely know it. And I guess now you do, too. Ruby itself is a fine language, and there are lots of great web apps running on Rails, but the framework just doesn’t fit with my development style. I like to keep things simple. I’m too much of a control-freak to sell my soul to a particular framework.
That said, many of the ideas behind Ruby on Rails are spot on. I particularly like how well it abstracts database queries into separate objects for each table. ...
http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/2921/getting-real-with-databases-in-php