That's the point. It's that fast to do things with RoR. The way it's designed, using the Model/Controller/View separation of code, it forces you to write good, clean, understandable and debuggable code. It also has testing built in, something I've never even done before because it was too much of a pain in the ass. With Rails, it's just as easy to do testing as to not do it, so now your app becomes more stable/reliable.
I resisted for well over a year with a, "Yeah RIGHT! It can't be as good as he say's it is." I found out that it is. The first night I played around with it, I was able to create a blog engine in 15 minutes, following one of his screen casts. That included database creation, and little front end design. I would have just barely gotten around to creating the MySql database if I used perl/php/java in 15 minutes. All the code in between my front end and the database itself was handled by rails. The scaffolding process is not meant to be a final product, so I would have to go in and edit (if I wanted it to look different) the code, but for getting proof of concept down, or creating an app right in front of the client in realtime, this stuff cannot be beat. The guy in the screen cast, David Hannemeir Hanson - the creator of Rails, also uses TextMate, which I cannot live without since learning about it from his screen casts. It is much faster at coding than anything else I've tried on mac or pc. Good luck -=Randy On 8/1/07 2:34 PM, "RyanA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Randy, > > I have not mess'd with Ruby at ALL. So I followed the link and I > watched that first demo video and LOL! That guys is on Ruby, Rails, > speed or something... he does things SOOO fast, it hard to tell what > he is doing. :o) However... Ruby looks way cool. > > -=Ry > > On Aug 1, 2:46 pm, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I invite you to check out Ruby on Rails. http://rubyonrails.org >> Pick up the Programming Ruby book and Agile Web Development With Rails, both >> from pragmatic programmers. Read them in that order and you'll have an >> easier time understanding the concepts/techniques. >> >> -=Randy >> >> On 7/31/07 11:12 PM, "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> I would like to start developing web applications for the iphone. I >>> have an iPhone and DreamweaverCS3 on MAC Pro. My previous programming >>> experience was with BASIC, Fortran and COBAL. What books/programs >>> should I get to begin my quest?- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
