Dec 16, 2009

Create a Weblog in 15 Minutes

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an open-source web framework. What really caught my eye about this programming option is that it boasts "In 15 minutes, we go from scratch to complete weblog engine with comments, ajax, an ATOM feed, an XML and JSON API, tests, an administrative interface, and much more!' This is curious to me because any program I've written has taken me hours. While this sounds great, I would probably still use a blogger service such as this one but the idea of creating one in 15 minutes from scratch, sounds appealing from a programming perspective. Here's a link to the video for creating a web log in 15 minutes (requires Quicktime): http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_blog_2.mov

For those of you who enjoyed the Head First book, they've even written one on rails: http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfrails/

Based on cruising the Internet there is quite a bit of documentation out there to help get you started. The api documentation provides an explanation of every class and functionality. It appears to be very thorough. It's a domain-specific language for having Web applications talk to databases.

RoR is a programming language which will help get you to agile web development. It was sited as the "poster-child" of dynamically typed languages (compared to Java for example).

As this is my last post I just wanted to say that it's been a pleasure blogging with all of you!

1 comment:

  1. Um yeah that would have been nice to know before my disaster of a final presentation. I would have liked to try it out on our website, make it look at the very least a little be nicer.

    Nice post

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