What's your favorite thing about Rails?

Rails
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What do seasoned developers really enjoy about Rails. How does it make
your life easier?

This is for favorites, not what you don’t like.

Thanks,
Dustin

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What do seasoned developers really enjoy about Rails. How does it make
your life easier?

This is for favorites, not what you don’t like.

There’s lots of things I like, but I’d say the longer I use Rails, the
more I realize that what I really like is that it’s built with
Ruby. Ruby makes coding enjoyable.

-philip

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Philip H. wrote:

What do seasoned developers really enjoy about Rails. How does it make
your life easier?

This is for favorites, not what you don’t like.

There’s lots of things I like, but I’d say the longer I use Rails, the
more I realize that what I really like is that it’s built with
Ruby. Ruby makes coding enjoyable.

Agreed. It’s the language, stupid! :slight_smile:

-philip

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 12:22 -0700, Philip H. wrote:

What do seasoned developers really enjoy about Rails. How does it make
your life easier?

This is for favorites, not what you don’t like.

There’s lots of things I like, but I’d say the longer I use Rails, the
more I realize that what I really like is that it’s built with
Ruby. Ruby makes coding enjoyable.

+1

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Migrations among so many other things, and of course Ruby

Trausti

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser <

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add nested restful resources to the mix

On Oct 30, 3:18 pm, Trausti Thor J. [email protected]

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Convention over configuration

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:16 PM, bill walton [email protected]
wrote:

+1

+1

–
www.abetaday.com

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Every time I work in a different language I’m always wishing I’m in
Ruby.
Some of the things that really stick out to me:

  • Testing is so much easier in Ruby then most languages.
  • The way objects work and how people designed them are more succinct,
    I’m
    thinking ActiveRecord and DataMapper vs. something like Doctrine.
  • I don’t have to type $, ->, { } as much
  • “The Ruby Way” is so much cleaner

Those are just a few…

(can you guess what language I have to use on a full time basis?)

Chris

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ar Chron
[email protected]wrote:

Convention over configuration

Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

–
Christopher Cowan

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated
simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”
– Charls Mingus, Jazz Bassist

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The ecosystem. So many smart people, building upon each other’s tools
and techniques.

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+1 for the Ruby language. Matz wrote a programming language based on
conventions from popular languages and made it beautiful to code
with.

I also like Gems. There are some really nice pieces of ready-made
functionality you can drop into your code very easily.

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Code less and enjoyable work :slight_smile:

its always fun while coding in ruby !

–
Sandip

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I wouldn’t limit your question to seasoned developers :slight_smile:

While I wouldn’t consider myself seasoned - I’ve written a few apps
for local use and am getting ready to publish an open source RoR app,
I don’t even know how little I know.

Rails makes life easier by it’s basic core principles -

Convention over configuration - Do you really need another file in
your app?

DRY - I’m not going to repeat this one

I’ve looked at different web programming stacks and haven’t found
anything close to Rails.