I got into RoR about 18 months ago, but only seriously got into it about this time last year.
One of the things I like about Rails & the ruby community is that they like to live on the "bleeding edge" a bit. Initially, my concerns were throwing away years of PHP experience and having to relearn for Ruby / Rails. After a while, picking up all the "ruby" ways of doing things, and the semantics of Ruby as a language made it much easier to use. One of the things which held me back early on was that for someone new to the language and framework, doing the simple things are well documented through the Rails guides - but when you want to do something a little more complex (such as a form which modifies nested associations, or some such) it gets a little more difficult until you learn the ins-and-outs of the framework, and how to structure your Rails app properly. And a lot of the time, until you know the "right" way of doing things, you end up being a little hacky :P Railscasts.com is a great place to learn. On Nov 4, 3:38 pm, Rimu Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm interested to know if developers on this list considered learning > > ruby on rails and if they did what were the roadblocks? > > I got into RoR for about a year, and built several web sites using it. I > ditched it though because they kept making major changes to the > framework so all the 3rd party plugins kept breaking and I had to keep > relearning how to do things. The whole framework had a bleeding edge > feel to it which I thought would settle down over time but it never did. > > It's a shame, because Ruby is beautiful and MVC is an effective pattern. > > R -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
