[Hidden-tech] Ruby on Rails

[Jonathon Podolsky]

A few people replied asking what questions I have in particular.   
Nothing really, just saw some examples of websites made with that  
program and they seem really cool.  I am not a programmer, but enjoy  
reading the discussion about it.

On a related note, has anyone used any of the products from www. 
37signals.com such as Backpack etc.?

All the best,

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On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Rich wrote:

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> There is a major cost in moving to a new language -- and as Fred  
> says, ROR is a combination of language and framework, the real power
> comes from what the framework provides -- the ROR team as done a  
> great job, it is a shame they are tied to the Ruby language - why ?
> I won't get into language debates - for this discussion, all that  
> counts is that it is not commonly known and whole new world
> for too many.
>
> As for PHP, there are a number of frameworks:
>    The two top ones (IMHO) are:
>               Symfony    http://www.symfony-project.com/
> and       Cake           http://www.cakephp.org/
>
> We did some work on a web interface to make Symfony even easier
> it is at: http://conductor.tnrnet.com/       (the release set there  
> is a bit messy, there was a crack in server with the wiki and we  
> didn't reconstruct it all)
>
> If anyone would like to discuss symfony more, email me offline
>
> Rich
>
> hiddentec at p98n.com wrote:
>>
>> To clear up some confusion, "Ruby on Rails" is not a programming  
>> language, it's a framework for developing web applications that  
>> happens to be written in and targeted for the "Ruby" programming  
>> language:
>>     http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
>>
>> There are some analogous Perl projects; e.g. Catalyst, and Jifty:
>>     http://www.catalystframework.org/
>>     http://jifty.org
>>
>> The idea of all of these is to make it easier to create web-based  
>> applications by providing standard methods - and code - for doing  
>> things most web applications need to do - e.g. authentication,  
>> session management, etc.
>>   -Fred
>>
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