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To: i-node who wrote (748655)	10/22/2013 1:32:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574349

I've been studying Ruby, because it's the language taught in most CompSci courses all over the country. It IS a step forward. You're just a crumudgeon. Educate yourself, for FREE: learnstreet.com

To: i-node who wrote (748655)	10/22/2013 2:36:51 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574349

which permits developers to spend their time thinking about functionality rather than implementation details. And that is Rails in a nutshell. It provides a MVC design pattern and support for most of the leading edge software engineering methodologies. In addition, there are a host of tools for finding areas of your code that might need attention. You can write helpers to DRY up your code. With the ActiveRecord design pattern you can abstract out the details of your database and make your code portable across the various SQL databases from sqlite to Oracle. Heck, it will generate a RESTful code skeleton for you after you provide it with your model names and associated field names. Most of the implementations details are handled for you. The only thing about Rails that is really Ruby specific is the gem facility. It is a convenient way to extend the language functionality. Go to the RubyForge to get an idea. With bundler, you can manage the gems you are using for a given project, easing deployment greatly. And then there are things like chef...