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July 4, 2005
I rebuilt Destiney.com using the Ruby on Rails MVC framework. For the uninitiated, MVC means model-view-controller. Being fairly new to Ruby on Rails, the rebuild took me about 8 hours or so. I have some old benchmark pages of various stuff.. took time to bring those in. They were previously in a standalone section. I was able to display my recent Blog entries content, not just the title and URL, something I couldn't do with the PHP XML parser.
I've used a couple of other MVC frameworks in the past, Mojavi and Binarycloud. I'm no MVC expert by any means, but I get the feeling Ruby on Rails is the way MVC is supposed to work. It's simple and clean, yet very productive. More than anything it's fun to work with.
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Book Recommendation:
Agile Web Development with Rails is the defacto-standard for learning the Ruby on Rails web framework. Now in its second edition, this book provides knowledge of the latest and greatest development techniques to aid in advanced web-based application development. It enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated applications using less code and less effort. This book contains sample applications using database migrations, Ajax, REST interfaces, and illustrates many new Rails features. There are new chapters on active support, active record, and action controller (including the new resources-based routing). The web 2.0 and deployment chapters appear to have been completely rewritten to reflect the latest thinking. You can learn which environments are best for your style application, and see how Capistrano makes managing your site really simple. For learning Ruby on Rails, this book is simply the best available. |
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