Hello, ive been programming PHP in almost 4 years now, and I want new
challenges! Ive started learning Ruby. I now know the most common
things, as if statements, loops, variables, classes, functions and stuff
like that. Then I came to a website with the header Ruby On Rails. I
became interested, and wanted to find out what that was about. I found
rubys official site and I started reading. Since i didnt understand that
much, and my installation of ROR didnt went quite well im at the same
spot where i was before! I dont know anything about ROR.
First when I googled the subject i think i understand a bit of it. I
think that ROR is a helping program - a sort of WYSIWYG editor for ruby
that helpes you making applications quicker.
First when I googled the subject i think i understand a bit of it. I
think that ROR is a helping program - a sort of WYSIWYG editor for ruby
that helpes you making applications quicker.
Is that right, or am I totally wrong?
Totally wrong
Go to the official website and read the home page, for starters; you’ll
see this right on the home page:
"Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web
applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. "
Rails is not an editor of any kind, it’s a collection of Ruby libraries
that help you quickly write database-backed web applications.
If you want to write websites in Ruby, Rails is one popular way to do
it (there are others).
I’d just suggest you start with the official website (rubyonrails.org),
read as much as you can there, and then feel free to come back to the
list with more questions.
First when I googled the subject i think i understand a bit of it. I
think that ROR is a helping program - a sort of WYSIWYG editor for ruby
that helpes you making applications quicker.
Briefly, Rails minimizes the distance between any two points in a
website.
Under Brand X, you typically must write a little code here, a little
there,
and a little somewhere else just to add a feature, such as one more
database
variable with an on-screen representation.
Under Rails, you typically must write much less code to get something
done.
This makes you feel like those two different layers are much closer to
each
other, instead of much farther apart.
