I wonder how many rails phrases I can come up with, I’ll just keep going. For those of you reading beware that this is a rails fan-boy post. I just can’t get over the fact of how sweet Rails is. Tonight I started working on setting up the rails framework for facilitating my database management and I just can’t get over how fast and easy it is. I was planning on a couple hours of getting things configured and troubleshooting before I could dig in. This is the first project I’ve started from scratch since I’ve been working on my larger rails project at work. What I found is that even though Rails seems easy when you start tinkering with it, just wait until you get comfortable with it. It literally took me 20 minutes to install MySql, update rails, installed mongrel just for fun, created a database, added some dummy entries, configured my rails app, generated my controller and models, and started spitting out dynamic pages from the database.
I think one huge advantage of Rails is the symantec markup of Ruby combined with the sweet Rails helper functions. I don’t have to revisit that connection string that I figured out 4 months ago on my last web project becuase it’s not needed. It’s just all so straight forward that it takes little effort to pick up and ride away.
I could write more blah blah blah, I love rails, blah blah blah, but instead I’m going to relax a little bit with my rails earned freetime.
