# Taking the RoR plunge

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/taking-the-ror-plunge/122535>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 9, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/taking-the-ror-plunge/122535 "2007-12-09T00:17:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jason_white)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/taking-the-ror-plunge/122535/1 "2007-12-09T00:17:19Z")

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I’ve been programming with .Net for awhile now. Last fall i attended the  
Lone Star Ruby Conference, and ever since then i have been thinking of  
devoting all of my efforts to learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The big  
question is how the future of Ruby is looking? What is needed to succeed  
in  
this language?

thanks,  
Jason

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**Author:** ![jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jason_white)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/taking-the-ror-plunge/122535/2 "2007-12-09T03:26:23Z")

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jason white wrote:

> I’ve been programming with .Net for awhile now. Last fall i attended the  
> Lone Star Ruby Conference, and ever since then i have been thinking of  
> devoting all of my efforts to learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The big  
> question is how the future of Ruby is looking? What is needed to succeed  
> in  
> this language?
> 
> thanks,  
> Jason

we need more rubys and gems. 🙂

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**Author:** ![jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jason_white)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/taking-the-ror-plunge/122535/3 "2007-12-09T04:59:48Z")

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I am also thinking about the feature of Ruby??

On Dec 9, 2007 7:56 AM, gemblon (t.b.)  
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**Author:** ![jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jason_white)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/taking-the-ror-plunge/122535/4 "2007-12-10T02:36:21Z")

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Excellent website (Rubyology), thanks for the link. It’s time to make  
the  
switch. Tomorrow night i’m going to the local ruby on rails user groups.  
thanks,  
Jason

On Dec 9, 2007 7:26 PM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid \<

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**Author:** ![jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jason\_white](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jason_white)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/taking-the-ror-plunge/122535/5 "2007-12-10T02:27:00Z")

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Jason,

I was an ASP and [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) developer for several years too. I switched  
to Ruby nearly 2 years ago and have been amazingly more happy and  
productive since. The language and tools are much more expressive and  
powerful. AJAX and Javascript through RJS is stupid simple. Check  
out the [http://www.Rubyology.com](http://www.Rubyology.com) podcast to help with your transition!

Cheers,  
Chris Matthieu