Started re-reading the latest version of Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition. I know this’ll bore many (most?) of my readers, but this kind of stuff excites me. I can’t help it.
Talking about how Rails has taken the world by storm:
But easy on its own doesn’t cut it. We’re talking about professional developers writing real-world websites. They wanted to feel that the applications they were developing would stand the test of time—that they were designed and implemented using modern, professional techniques. So, these developers dug into Rails and discovered it wasn’t just a tool for hacking out sites.
For example, all Rails applications are implemented using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. Java developers are used to frameworks such as Tapestry and Struts, which are based on MVC. But Rails takes MVC further: when you develop in Rails, there’s a place for each piece of code, and all the pieces of your application interact in a standard way. It’s as if you start with the skeleton of an application already prepared.
Yum.
Tags: innovation, ruby, software development
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