Comments on: What Is This Rails Thing? http://www.newthink.net/2007/10/01/what-is-this-rails-thing/ Less Talk. More Do. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:10:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.newthink.net/2007/10/01/what-is-this-rails-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Adam Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:59:03 +0000 http://newthink.net/blog/2007/10/01/what-is-this-rails-thing/#comment-11 I've found too many limitations with Rails. As Ash has said; it's great for quick prototyping.. but then again so is Visio if you're just going for a visual prototype. I'm leaning towards Flex right now as the next thing to use and have some fun with. PHP is great; Silverlight is a POS; and the Google Web Toolkit just scares me due to the upgrades constantly required and the browser dependency. I’ve found too many limitations with Rails. As Ash has said; it’s great for quick prototyping.. but then again so is Visio if you’re just going for a visual prototype.

I’m leaning towards Flex right now as the next thing to use and have some fun with. PHP is great; Silverlight is a POS; and the Google Web Toolkit just scares me due to the upgrades constantly required and the browser dependency.

]]> By: Ash Christopher http://www.newthink.net/2007/10/01/what-is-this-rails-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Ash Christopher Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:07:03 +0000 http://newthink.net/blog/2007/10/01/what-is-this-rails-thing/#comment-13 It seems really neat, and I can really see it helping get something prototyped quickly. My biggest problem now is getting familiar with the framework. When I developed in PHP I had direct control over everything, but it was also a crap-load more work to get something working. My latest issue which I have moved to the backburner in light of other things on this project deals with uploading files. I have looked at this tutorial (<a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUploadFiles" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUploadFiles</a>) , but I can't seem to get it to go. It is a simple thing I am trying to do, and in PHP, it would have taken maybe 10 minutes to get it all working. It has taken considerably longer with Rails, but alas I am trying to learn as I go. I guess I shouldnt be too disappointed. Also, crap, maybe I should have held out for the third edition of this book. Oh well. It seems really neat, and I can really see it helping get something prototyped quickly. My biggest problem now is getting familiar with the framework. When I developed in PHP I had direct control over everything, but it was also a crap-load more work to get something working.

My latest issue which I have moved to the backburner in light of other things on this project deals with uploading files. I have looked at this tutorial (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUploadFiles) , but I can’t seem to get it to go. It is a simple thing I am trying to do, and in PHP, it would have taken maybe 10 minutes to get it all working. It has taken considerably longer with Rails, but alas I am trying to learn as I go. I guess I shouldnt be too disappointed.

Also, crap, maybe I should have held out for the third edition of this book. Oh well.

]]> By: Wes http://www.newthink.net/2007/10/01/what-is-this-rails-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Wes Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:59:40 +0000 http://newthink.net/blog/2007/10/01/what-is-this-rails-thing/#comment-12 I found learning Rails to be quite fun, and you may want to start playing with 2.0, as it looks to be 'released' very soon. It you loved migrations before, you'll love what they've done with them now. I found learning Rails to be quite fun, and you may want to start playing with 2.0, as it looks to be ‘released’ very soon. It you loved migrations before, you’ll love what they’ve done with them now.

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