Please forgive the rather obvious pun, but I thought I’d take twelve from a day of Ruby on Rails development to write a blog and drink some strong coffee.
I have a final university project due in March, of which I have to design and build an application, perform usability tests, improve it and then write 10,000 words about how I did it. It’s December and I just started building.
Ruby On Rails, or Rails, (for those who don’t know) is a web framework written in Ruby, allowing you to create dynamic sites quickly and cleanly - the way I like to explain it to people is “It does the horrible bits” - and leaves me to do the stuff that only I can do. Like coding lovely XHTML and CSS documents.
I’d messed around with Ruby a while ago, on my PC, and it was horrible. It’s the sort of language that relies on you being able to jump into a command line, and Windows isn’t great for that. Bash, Taco and CocoaMySQL on the Mac are a pleasure to work with. Sadly, I’m in university tomorrow, and have to endure slow PC’s, bad editors, and badly written JavaScript examples from nine to five.
I should be done within the week, so if anyone knows of any good, cheap, RoR hosting then please let me know.
In other news I started a new blog. 5ivesongs is an almost daily list of five songs with some sort of connection. And they’re good songs too, so check it out.
- Samuel
