On the High Rails with Ruby
Ruby on Rails (ROR) is the recent addition to the Internets DIY (Do it Yourself) Magic Kit. It is an open source web application development framework based on the Ruby Programming Language. Like its parent, it is highly user friendly, much simpler to learn & apply & has time proven outputs to justify its unearthed position in the market. If you have dreamt of putting up your website online with all that interactive thingies, now is the chance.
Buy your own domain & your web space. You can find a lot of cheap web hosting services online, after a small research of course. Find out the services they offer you, the bandwidth, the email accounts, the security features & so on. With a good & cheap web hosting services and Ruby on Rails to assist you, you can set up a cyber wonder in no time.
Though Ruby on Rails embodies a lot of libraries (like Prototype and others) developed in Javascript for Ajax, it is much simpler than Java itself. If you assume learning all the tricks & codes of core Java in a period of two months, Ruby on Rails will give you the same power in a couple of weeks, thanks to its easy to use “snippets”. Plus, the output can be derived in the globally acclaimed HTML & XML formats. The latest release (3.0.7) carries forward the “Convention over Configuration (CoC)” Legacy of the Rails Core Team. Thanks to the third party developers, many plug-ins have been devised for various platforms.