Ruby On Rails

Ruby is an excellent programming language for rapid development because Ruby is fast and easy to change as you build. The Ruby On Rails (ROR) web framework is excellent for rapid web application development.

Examples

• Ruby On Rails web applications for users to sign in to your website and work with it
• System administration tools for parsing data, connecting to databases, editing files, and more
• Security monitoring for Internet email servers, websites, RSS feeds, and detecting attacks

Sample

  class Sample
    def hi
      puts "Hello World"
    end
  end

Comparisons

Ruby is much like the Python programming language because both are:

• usually dynamic and interpreted
• relatively new languages
• led by one person
• good for rapid application development

Ruby is less like Java and C/C++ because these are:

• usually static and compiled
• relatively long-lasting languages especially in business
• led by a consortium of large companies
• good for enterprise web development and rich desktop applications

Articles

Ruby language homepage

Ruby On Rails web application framework

Rails Tips: How to use Google for Authentication

Ruby On Rails development tips

Ruby On Rails guides: sustainable productivity for web application development

Ruby Guides, Gems, Modules, Extensions

• Terminator: manage your threads better than Timeout and SystemTimer
• Artificial Intelligence Ruby Extensions

Ruby Search Engines

• ThinkingSphinx and UltraSphinx search engines on Ruby API for Sphinx
• Geospatial Searches with ThinkingSphinx

Rails Guides, Plugins, Extensions

• Peepcode screencasts of Ruby On Rails 2.0 and 2.1
• Ruby On Rails code quality checklist
• jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype and Scriptaculous on Rails
• HTML CSS to PDF using Ruby On Rails
• PD4ML: HTML CSS to PDF converter for Java with a Ruby API
• Ext JS Tree TreeLoader with Rails for AJAX framework
• Scaffolding Extensions and Ramaze

Rails Monitoring

• New Relic: Rails monitoring now free
• Rails Monitoring with Monit, Scout, Exception Notification

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