Rushabh's .NET Blog

Ok so ...all the buzz about Ruby on Rails finally got to me and I decided to check out the official website and see what I am missing.

This is what I had heard about Ruby on rails:

• It is a framework written in scripting language Ruby
  
• This framework does the ORM mapping for you automatically and so you get a DAL without breaking a sweat.

After several minutes of browsing, I now know that:

• Rails follows the Model-View-Control pattern.
  
• Rails makes it easy to include AJAX in our Web apps. (still have to see some examples of this)
  
• Ruby is an object oriented scripting language where everything is an object.
  
• Ruby is an extremely dynamic language. You can write stuff like:
  
' Does object "g" have a method named "name"
g.respond_to?("name")


Pretty cool huh!! However because of my .NET and PHP background, it took me a while to get used to the Ruby syntax. Here is some Ruby code to display all items of array "names".

@names.each do
|name|
puts "Hello #{name}!"
end

Maybe it is just a matter of getting used to. Anyway, If I have gotten you excited about Ruby(rails) and you want to check it out yourself, I strongly recommend this 15 minute interactive Ruby tutorial .

I am going to download this Ruby editor for windows next and write some "hello world" type programs. Based on how things look right now ...I might have to do this in the future:

MyBlog.Title[".NET"] = "Ruby on Rails"

Get it?