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• Ruby Becoming Lacklustre?

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  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Thu 22 Jan 2009 at 20:12

  Type

  Blog Entry

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  In my 2009 prediction post, I predicted that Ruby on Rails would either "fade into obscurity or gain more attention". Basically, I think that Ruby on Rails has one year left to catch on in the programming community or it will slowly fade away. Paired with Ruby on Rails is the programming language Ruby, upon which Rails runs. Ruby was always a back-seat programming language until Ruby on Rails took the stage, which turned everyone's attention towards the rather small programming language. Now Ruby has a rather respectable place in the progra…

• Ruby on Rails

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Tue 28 Mar 2006 at 15:38

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Ruby on Rails is suppose to be the next "big thing", which may be more than true. Rails is an open source framework, whose goal is to allow applications to be written in significantly less code. Rails is not a programming language. It is a framework written in Ruby. When you use Rails you are really writing Ruby code, which is then handled by Rails. Previously, finding good Rails tutorials was a tad hard. They were very few in number. Six months later and Ruby resources are more than plentiful. You can find tutorials, books, applicati…