Builders Collective

What is Ruby on Rails?

A framework for building web applications. This is quoted from their home page:

Rails has been conceived, coded, and evangelized by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals with the kind help of a lot of contributors.

How did it start?

Basecamp, a project-management tool by 37signals, was the original Rails application from which the framework was extracted.

Dave Thomas:
I think Rails may well be the framework to break Ruby into the mainstream

Real-life apps

Basecamp, Backpack, 43 Things, Ta-da List, Hieraki, S5 Presents, Snowdevil

To get Ruby on Rails running in Mac OS X

The documentation for Mac OS X installation packages sends you here, for Jaguar and Panther, but it redirects to the install instructions on the Rails site for Tiger. From here, there is a tutorial on how to get up and running.

| posted Friday August 12, 2005

I want to have my cake and eat it too

If someone is having problems understanding the phrase, “I want to have my cake and eat it too,” others have also tried to understand it and offered their two cents.

I have just been introduced to something in the works over at cakephp.org that could be something worth watching. It at least makes me wonder whether I should be jumping on the Ruby on Rails bandwagon (or bullet train), or waiting for my piece of cake.

You can make Cake with AJAX according to the demo.

| posted Friday August 12, 2005