Entries Tagged as 'Learning Ruby'

More CakePHP Stuff

Posted on May 15th, 2007. 4 Comments so far. You next?

In using the CakePHP framework for only a couple of days now, I’m starting to see what I can use it for, and how it’s helping me with other things.
For example, I now understand how Ruby on Rails works. Not really having understood it before, using CakePHP, which is apparently a blatant rip off of […]

Various Ruby on Rails Resources

Posted on April 28th, 2007. 3 Comments so far. You next?

My documented quest for Ruby on Rails knowledge has taken a major back seat lately and likely will for a long time because it’s just not important to what I do, and what I want to do, which is design. I’ve been lucky to not have to code anything server side for a while […]

“JavaScript on ProtoType”

Posted on March 23rd, 2007. 4 Comments so far. You next?

In learning Ruby on Rails, I’ve come accross this little bump of which I easy surpassed, but it seems to be a problem for many. Here’s what I’ve gathered:
Ruby is the programming language. Rails is a framework. Ruby on Rails is not a language.
This is probably on of the most difficult things for people to […]

Learning Ruby: What’s Worked So far

Posted on March 18th, 2007. 2 Comments so far. You next?

I’ve been speculating about documenting my ‘quest’ so to speak on learning Ruby on Rails. What’s drawn me to this, over PHP5 which to this point I’m completely comfortable with, is that RoR is said to be the best for developers, and you can do things that would take PHP thousands of lines in 60! […]