Thursday, March 19, 2009

Coding with Ruby On Rails

ProjectTraXX's technology stack is based on Ruby On Rails with a MySQL database. Frontend stuff will probably be pure HTML with some AJAX script-libs. Now don't get a wrong impression - frontend decisions are well thought through - by Matz (@Matz: Where is your blog ???).

Ruby on Rails is a framework that supports very fast and agile development. It is great fun to code with it. Even though it is light weight compared to some Java stacks there is learning curve. That's probably due to my limited experience with coding (lately) and due to the fact that I am supported with only an old RoR book - the classic one - the one which is 1.5 years old. Which means: It is totally outdated.

So every once in a while (three times per hour) I google some exception-traces to catch a nurdy comment in a rails-forum that suggests to skip deprecated methods and move on with the much easier way it is done nower days ;-)

At the end of the day that's coding - and coding is fun. It is a lot of work, too. But - hey - I asked for it. So back to the roots and back to work.

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