Learning Ruby: Day 3 (a day late)

Yesterday I spent time going through several chapters of the Build Your Own Web Apps... book and learned quite a bit.

First off, let me just say that Rails is pure genius. Just from the little taste of it that I got in these early chapters, it makes complete sense on why 37Signals works the way they do. It seems like their entire company is shaped around this methodology of agility and scalability. It's a beautiful business model.

Anyway, a lot of what I learned was conceptual thinking stuff, and how Rails is set up. Rails is, in fact as I mentioned a couple days ago, a framework that basically gives you a head start on programming with Ruby. It sets everything up for you in a tidy structure that tackles three main development principles:

• Convention over Configuration


• DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)


• Agilie development