A Visit to the Trainyard
After hearing mention of the Ruby programming language I did some reading about it this past weekend. Ruby sounds interesting to me in my ongoing effort to learn more about OOP.
In my reading I found references to a web application development framework called Ruby on Rails (RoR), which is written entirely in Ruby itself. I downloaded RoR, tweaked Apache to run FastCGI, and took a look.
It appears that applications written using RoR follow the MVC pattern. So far it appears to be a pretty slick framework. I will next gather documentation and tutorials for RoR and do more exploration.
I wasn’t planning on learning a new language – I’m still very new to my current workhorse php – but I like the fact that Ruby is strictly OOP.
A small work project which I was hoping to do in C# was recently cancelled, so I think I’ll fill that study time with Ruby for now.