Ruby On Rails

Web App Framework built in Ruby

http://www.rubyonrails.org/

Essentially driven by what they want to do with BaseCamp. So ideal for building BaseCamp-like apps.

• on the architecture of BaseCamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhseQP52yIY

basic info

• http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html

• http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000199.html

• used for BaseCamp

• compared to Python FrameWork-s

  • Ian Bicking - http://blog.ianbicking.org/thoughts-on-ruby-on-rails.html

uses YAML for config files and Unit Test data!

supports Web Services with XmlRpc and SOAP API-s

• ReST support - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/02/rest-on-rails.html

Alternative Ruby Web App Framework-s

• Jan'2008 Sinatra, Merb, etc. http://accidentaltechnologist.com/ruby/10-alternative-ruby-web-frameworks/

Rails On MacOsX

Jan'2013: Giles Bowkett on the variety of Rails "stacks" used by real developers, and "application templates" to specify them.

Some notes from reading AgileWebDevelopmentWithRails ISBN:097669400X (v1)

I'm surprised that the templates they generate use HttpGet for deletes and edits.

I'm chewing over whether data validation (non-nulls, etc.) should happen in the RDBMS rather than in the code. At least for the rules that are simple enough to be easily expressed in the db engine.

• of course, this assume that you're not using some either kind of Data Store which might not have such validation capabilities built in....