Thursday, January 31, 2008

Rails Envy!


I remember about expressing curiosity on Ruby in a post at this blog. It looks an interesting dynamic language which attracted me more than Python (
IMHO Ruby's constructs are sexier , maybe because of it's Lisp/Smalltalk influences).

I was finishing college when i heard about Ruby for the first time. It was during that first boom of Ruby on Rails web development framework. It really interested me back then, feeling "cleaner" than the technology stack i was working with at the time (Java 5 + Struts + Hibernate) with all that Convention over Configuration talk, Active Record pattern for DB operations etc. In the end i never managed to perform experiments with Ruby.

Yesterday i found some ass kickin' videos made by some Ruby fanboys from RailsEnvy.com and i really appreciated their way of spreading the word on RoR : With parodies of those famous Mac vs Pc. It's really worth checkin' out!



RoR vs Java


RoR vs Php


RoR vs .Net


It's cool the way that the Ruby community is still boiling with activity even after that big hype. It's essential for the language/platform to become long-lived.

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