Ruby on Rails

Fernando Perez wrote:
>> Remember that RoR is a framework and not a language. Compare it to
>> CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symphony in the PHP space.
>
> No RoR is a thing to build websites, as pure php, symphony, and pure
> ruby do, so it is fair to compare them.

It's fair to compare Rails and Symfony. It's fair to compare pure PHP
and pure Ruby. That's about it, really.

>
> RoR is stuff written in Ruby that avoids writing boiler plate.

No, it's much more than that, unless you have a very broad definition of
"boilerplate".

>
> Beware 2 months is certainly no enough to get your app going.

Of course it is. The app is very simple, and the OP should be able to
get a usable version within 2 months (depending on how long it takes him
to learn Ruby and Rails, of course).

> In real
> life, a usable blog takes more than 15 minutes to get built.

Of course. 15 minutes is not 2 months.

>
> Have fun learning and working with Rails.

Best,
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marnen@marnen.org
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