Ruby on Rails is a full-stack MVC framework for database-backed web applications that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.
I love zentest 's autotest when it works. Every code change I make is intelligently and quickly run against my rails unit tests, and a notification appears in a pop-up window (via integration with growl). I know this is old news, but I'm just experiencing it again on a new project and it makes staying in a TDD-driven coding "zone" possible. andy — about 1 month ago
conundrum: Phusion passenger docs say that apache's mod_rewrite is slow but I want to do the friendly thing and redirect (301) requests that were sent directly to the downstream webservers back to our canonical website. Ohloh used to do this with a mongrel.conf similar to the one posted here: http://noobonrails.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-seo-mojo-with-rails.html. Hopeful solution: To preserve the speed-up in Passenger given by PassengerHighPerformance, I port this mongrel specific fix into a rails before_filter. andy — 3 months ago
Be careful the ruby idiom for memoization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization) if you might have false or nil a result of the calculation you're cachine. For example: def hot_spot; hot_spot ||= slow_calculation; end fails to cache as expected when slow_calculation returns nil or false. Apps on edge rails can require 'active_support/memoizable' (see http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/8a9934a9d9fc98b56c4566ae2e3fd4d83e505d3e) or do something like def hot_spot; return hot_spot if defined?(hot_spot); hot_spot = slow_calculation; end andy — 8 months ago
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Rails certainly isn't perfect, but it's an excellent Web framework, due in large part to the power of the Ruby language. And most of the problems in the other reviews were bogus when they were written a year ago -- let alone now.
Eball said:
> No compiler means that you get to remember all the code in your head
Huh? No, no compiler means that there's no compiler. That's *all* it means. I've worked with Web frameworks in
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... once you leave the initial development track. Localization and Unicode have just arrived, but there's a lot of work to do until it's ready for prime time...
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