Re: IronRuby

Ruby is not statically typed, and Rails carries CoC very far, to the point
of being bewildering at first.  The safety net in Rails are the tests.
Rails has great documentation:

    http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

Spend an afternoon with this and you'll get a good feel, and know whether
you'll like it or not.  My guess is that Rails and ASP.NET MVC would have
equal learning curves.  My intent is to learn both, but I'm starting with
Rails since that is where MS is drawing its inspiration from, and Rails is
always going to be way out ahead.  Rails is teaching me things I thought I
already knew but didn't.

Mike


On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Steve Richter <[email protected]>wrote:

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> How does ruby on rails differ from asp.net mvc?  When people say dynamic,
> they mean untyped? The untyped stuff in MVC is the part of that framework
> that I actually dislike. Having to use viewdata to pass arguments to the
> site master. Anonymous types used for route values - dont like that very
> much.  I am ok with the convention part of MVC, but would like the compiler
> and visual studio to tell me when I am not adhering to convention.  Does
> ruby on rails work by convention also?
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> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> This is a bummer to read:
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>> http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/08/start-spreading-news-future-of-jimmy.html
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>> I recently started learning Ruby on Rails (Rails 3 edge on XP) for my
>> personal projects and was hoping I could use IronRuby on Rails at work some
>> day.  I know I'm several years late to the RoR party but it has been quite
>> an eye opener.  Sorry to hear that MS isn't pushing it.
>>
>> Mike
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