Ruby On or Off Rails
Posted by Jim at March 6th, 2007
I don’t know if I mentioned it, but I got interested in Ruby on Rails late in 2005.
I messed around with it a bit, got an extensive hosting account with a Rails friendly provider (for my business), and then stopped doing much with it. This isn’t because it’s not interesting or I came to dislike Ruby on Rails, but rather because I got sick of not knowing ruby.
Though I imagine it would have been possible to just push through and teach myself ruby and Rails simultaneously, I decided that I’d be happier if I just concentrated on learning ruby for a bit–and that’s where I am now.
I’m thinking that I might post exercises that I’ve done online for everyone’s entertainment and criticism. We’ll see if that happens though. I’m not completely sure if I want to leave a permanent record of clueless coding online.
That is my impression learning Rails… I keep thinking, “how can people possibly learn this *while* learning Ruby? It’s hard enough for me to keep track of all of it already knowing Ruby.”
The effortlessness of Rails stuff is way overhyped. But it is good stuff.
Ed Heil