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March 27, 2006
Ruby on Rails
I have been keeping an eye on the developments with Ruby on Rails. Last year when I was looking at it there were too many issues on winodws to allow me to use it, most specifically not allowing FastCGI thus meaning any application I wrote would run dog slow on my Windows Server and I wasnt prepared to shell out more money for a Linux box.
I'm happy to say that the situation is sorted out. FastCGI now runs beautifully (at leats it does so on my development machine) with minimal configuration. Also I am happy with MySQL 5 which is a real MS SQL killer in my book - stored procedures anyone?
I am reading through Agile Web Development with Rails and Programming Ruby - both from the very wonderful and helpful Pragmatic Programmers
Once I have finished grokking some toy applications and drank some of the depth of the tool from the books I will be setting off to recode a major application that I shelved for a while and I will be tackling a few new ones with a view to providing easily cusotomisable services for clients.
The watchword for the next year for me is to keep things simple. Instead of writing complex CMS systems myself I am using MoveableType (OK, I couldnt resist writing some plugins for it....). Instead of jumping into learning ASP.NET with VB (yeuch - my brain aches in rememberance) I hope to be able to make my living from learning a clean platform like Rails with a lovely OO based language Ruby. Fantastic - the future looks bright!
Now all I need are some clients...
Posted by dottie at March 27, 2006 4:13 PM