This year I decided to try to catch some of the Ruby sessions, and see what all the hype was about. Apparently I have been missing a lot. Fortunately Lucas Carlson was around to show me the light.
As it turns out, Ruby (or Rails, really) is just awesome. Actually, I’m not sure awesome is quite enough to really describe my thoughts, but I can’t think of a better word…. (if only I had a way with words like Rory maybe I could come up with something. (But I’m not. (So I can’t. (But (Maybe (I ( Can (Get (More (Parentheses (Into (One (Sentence))))))))))))).
OK, so back to Rails. If you haven’t tried it, you should. I’m pretty sure you can re-create the internet in about 4 lines of code. Yeah, its that good.
I have found a really good bit of aggregated info about Rails on this site, so check it out.
Honestly, I had a terrible headache during the afternoon, so I don’t remember a lot of the afternoon sessions very well. I remember thinking “Atlas is cool” and “That guy isnt wearing any shoes”, but most of it is kind of a blur.
P.S. It was somewhat difficult to get setup on Windows, but its probably because I was falling asleep. I have it down pretty good now, so if you need help, leave a comment and I will e-mail you back and help you through it.
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July 24th, 2006 at 9:40 am
[…] All in all, this was one of my favorite sessions of the day and had me so excited about Ruby on Rails that I got the environment setup on my computer to play with the next day (although one of the other 4Guys was even MORE excited than I was….). If you haven’t taken a look at Ruby on Rails and are involved in web development in any way, I would highly recommend you read up on it. It never hurts to be familiar with other web technologies and you’ll get over that sick feeling in your stomach when you realized you could have spent 3 months learning Ruby and 3 days making your entire project instead of 2 years eventually…or at least I hope you do. [link] […]