Why Ruby on Rails rocks from a .net developer eye

Why RuBY ON RAILS Rocksfrom .net DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE
Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Personal experience
“Recent” productivity jump thanks to Asp.net MVC + jQuery (http://weekplan.net)
Railscasts videos and TeachMeToCode videos while commuting
After three weeks of learning, I felt I was more productive in RoR than in Asp.net / Asp.net MVC

TaskArmy.com
Freelance marketplace with a twist

Glad you asked
Why does RoR rock?

No wasteful compile time

Scaffolding
Generate controller actions / views / models / database schema in one command

Easy routing

Emailing the way it should be
Model: notifier.rb
View: notifier/message_notification.erb
Usage

Three environments out of the box

Migrations

Gems / Plugins system
gem install authlogic
ruby ./script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper

Open Source community
GitHub.com
easy A/B testing (abingo)
easy postmark lib (postmark-rails)
easy paging (will_paginate)
easy RpxNow lib (rpx_now)
easy amazon s3 upload (aws-s3)
easy full text search (texticle)

Testing framework
autotest
Run the related tests
in the background
when a file is modified

Heroku
Cloud solution for ruby on rails
Can add and remove modules
Database
Emailing
Exception notification
Performance monitoring
Gem installation
Full text search
Super easy deployment
> deploy “Fixed a typo in about us page”

Easy Ajax
_form.html.erb
application.js – AJAX SPECIFIC
feedback_controller.rb
create.js.erb – AJAX SPECIFIC

Elegant validation

Easy authentication
loggedin?
current_user

Free
Works on free operating systems
Out of the box databases are free too
IDEs are not necessary
For a proper IDE: RubyMine from jetBrains
Open source mindset
People are more inclined to open source something rather than try to make money out of their code.

Questions?
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Why Ruby on Rails rocks from a .net developer eye

by Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli on Jun 21, 2010

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