Ruby on Rails

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152

Silly things like not being able to do function_that_returns_array(someargs)[0]

I wasn't aware that this wasn't possible, however I don't consider this to be a significant disadvantage. it adds a single line to dump the result of the function into a variable and access variable[0]. True, it will add up in a complex (non-web) application, but the performance hit is negligible to non-existant, and it doesn't deteriorate readability of the code either.

That's why I said that specific examples are kind of a waste of time. Yes this one thing is not a huge deal, but there are these "little" things everywhere and they end up changing the whole experience.

in either event, i'm going to take a closer look at ruby when i get a chanec :thumbsup:

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Well I have been using it for a couple days at work now, and I have a little search thing done that's about 60 lines of code in the controller, and that was the "hard" part. I have been stumbling around a little just due to not knowing Ruby yet, and although it's not always easy to find answers to stuff on the web, it's not all that bad, and it puts hair on your chest.

 

[screw3d]

I just read some stuff about Ruby.. so bump to continue the discussion

Edit: Read some tutorials.. the syntax looks like a PHP/Perl hybrid with a lot of automation when dealing with MySQL.. hmmm interesting

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Well I have been using it for a couple days at work now, and I have a little search thing done that's about 60 lines of code in the controller, and that was the "hard" part. I have been stumbling around a little just due to not knowing Ruby yet, and although it's not always easy to find answers to stuff on the web, it's not all that bad, and it puts hair on your chest.

I just found the time to look at Ruby on Rails, so far it seems interesting with some nice potential. You've had 3 months with it, how has it worked out for you? Your follow up thoughts on Ruby on Rails would be appreciated.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Well I finished the site I was working on, and overall I liked it. It certainly doesn't solve ALL problems -- you still find yourself trying to find the best way to avoid duplication of things, and stuff like that. But MUCH less than with, say, some homebrew PHP stuff you might otherwise use. The site is here -- it's pretty simple. We tried to give it a craigslist-like simplicity.

 

[Insomniak]

Just bypass them all and learn Lisp. It's arguably the most powerful language out there right now anyway.

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Just bypass them all and learn Lisp. It's arguably the most powerful language out there right now anyway.

RoR is a framework.. Lisp is a language. It's two different things.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: screw3d

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Just bypass them all and learn Lisp. It's arguably the most powerful language out there right now anyway.

RoR is a framework.. Lisp is a language. It's two different things.

Yeah, but what with all the discussion of Python, Ruby, Perl going on in here....