Re: IronRuby

Or check out this fantastic site:

    http://railscasts.com/

Watching Ryan Bates' mastery of Textmate and shortcuts on the Mac is part of
the pleasure.

I have come to realize that learning RoR really is just as difficult as
learning ASP.NET.  However, RoR is clean and beautiful.

Mike

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a bummer to read:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/08/start-spreading-news-future-of-jimmy.html
>>>
>>> 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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