Ruby on Rails

I do, and i love it, my first language of choice.
 
I am thinking of building a mobile application with a restful backend api using JSON to communicate, and am looking for and efficient framework to do this. someone suggested rails, I have a php background.
 
Rails syntax is not the most elegant, but PHP is a massive ball of tools spliced together and called a language. I've never used a framework for that, I write my stuff from scratch
 
well semaphore I have been going through some tutorials on youtube and am beginning to understand how it all fits together. I do get what you mean about the syntax, it like stuff is done backwards, you can tell that the language was written by someone who is not a native English speaker lol.
 
debonair said:
well semaphore I have been going through some tutorials on youtube and am beginning to understand how it all fits together. I do get what you mean about the syntax, it like stuff is done backwards, you can tell that the language was written by someone who is not a native English speaker lol.
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Ruby and Rails were written by different people.

Why Rails over Django? (I'm not a fanboy of either, just curious)
 
i find django way overrated. never liked it, never will
 
I've played with it a bit and I don't really like the syntax. I'd much rather use Python/Django to be honest.
 
semaphore said:
ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, Node.Js + Express

I'd rather drink camel piss than ever code in python again.
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Hehe. Had a bit of an overdose? Refactoring can be a real bitch on a large code base :(
 
I use it too - and puts a smile on my face using it. A lot of startups make use of it - but would be nice to see a little more uptake in the corporate world.
 
Actually - I'm going to be giving a Rails course some time next year through http://ubxd.co.za/courses - but no dates are confirmed yet. I think there may be a link or email somewhere there if you want to put yourself onto a list.
 
Thanks joergd I've been going through some video tutorials and am making some headway, I am also looking to join a Ruby user group to get some help.
I should be done with the tutorials in a couple of days and will go on to begin building my application.
 
Anyone working with Rails in 2025?

Recently started a side project with Rails (after dissing it for years because everyone is talking about how dead and slow it is) - and coming from the Django + NodeJS world, it's quite an eye opener.

I setup a project using Rails + InertiaJS + React and it's been really nice to work with and actually ship things rather than dealing with ambiguity that often comes up with un-opinionated stacks - I'm fairly OCD with how code "looks" and with little projects I wrote with vanilla Typescript / NodeJS in the past, they would end up with multiple refactors to get the architect right before I even get a basic MVP out.

I found that with Rails since it already made those decisions for you, it takes care of most of that context load so that I as a builder can focus on shipping my idea and focus on that logic.
 
charlieharper said:
Anyone working with Rails in 2025?

Recently started a side project with Rails (after dissing it for years because everyone is talking about how dead and slow it is) - and coming from the Django + NodeJS world, it's quite an eye opener.

I setup a project using Rails + InertiaJS + React and it's been really nice to work with and actually ship things rather than dealing with ambiguity that often comes up with un-opinionated stacks - I'm fairly OCD with how code "looks" and with little projects I wrote with vanilla Typescript / NodeJS in the past, they would end up with multiple refactors to get the architect right before I even get a basic MVP out.

I found that with Rails since it already made those decisions for you, it takes care of most of that context load so that I as a builder can focus on shipping my idea and focus on that logic.
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In what way is Django unopinionated?
 
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