My experiment with Ruby on Rails - Vol. I
This entry was posted on 7/17/2006 2:41 PM and is filed under Software.
Yesterday evening a homepage idea came to my mind (what kinda homepage and why type of questions are not to be answered now because of being top secret
), which is a bit different from what usual content management systems like postnuke, mambo etc. or blogging / website editor stuff offers, so I started to think about how to do that. Recently I've read about Ruby on Rails being simple but relatively powerful tool for creating database-driven websites, I decided to start experimenting. Being on vacation just from today because of the kindergarten break of my children gave me some free time so I didn't hesitate and started researching immediately.
The first thing I need to learn of course is the language Ruby. I found a good tutorial here:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/ I've almost completely gone through it, and based on that Ruby seems to be a simple but powerful, ultra-liberal, half-Smalltalk, half-Perl radically object-oriented, loosely typed scripting language.
I like it, so I keep going.
Additional documentation about the language:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/(to be continued)
