Larry Mahony

Ruby on Rails

January 25th, 2007

I finally got round to checking out the much hyped Ruby on Rails development framework. I know I’m a bit slow getting to it but it’s hard to find time to do everything! We don’t use it at work because it doesn’t fit in with our Microsoft platform oriented clients. In fact the whole open source area is not something any of our clients seem too keen on working with.

It’s an open source web framework that makes developing database driven web applications very easy. I downloaded it and started some basic work and within a few minutes had it connected to one of our SQL Servers here and then with one line of code and some incredibly clever naming conventions you can manipulate your database tables at the drop of a hat. I’ll have to spend some more time checking it out, in between the .NET, Java, JavaScript, ActionScript and everything else I’m currently doing.

From a quick glance it appears that Blacknight are the only company in Ireland that offers hosting for it. Whatever anyone else says about them it’s good to see an Irish hosting company keeping up to date with the latest developments.

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