Dabbling With Ruby on Rails 2.0 + Other News
I did a massive amount of Ruby on Rails development when the first wave of Rails hype hit about 4 years ago for a project that required it. I enjoyed working with the framework but to be honest it didn’t knock me out. I’ve been toying with learning Django recently and thought I’d check out how it compared with Rails. The interesting thing that came out of my investigations is how much Rails and it’s ecosystem has changed.
Rails 2.0 is quite a different beast to the original rails and the amount of plugins and gems now available is simply amazing. It looks so good that it’s put me off Django and I’m investing quite a bit of time picking up rails again. Windows Rails used to be rubbish, but now we have E-Text Editor, a perfect clone of the popular Mac only TextMate – the Rails dev weapon of choice. I’ve also invested in the PeepCode library and can recommend it highly.
I’ve not been blogging much as I’ve been working hard on my new application, AmpliFeeder that I’m going to release as open source in the coming weeks.
This blog is moving too. I’m getting rid of Mosso as a hosting provider as the exchange rate and reliability problems are just making it impossible to continue with them. Mosso is cool in principal but has always failed to live up to expectations in my opinion. I’m moving it to Clook a host that seems to be highly regarded in the Wordpress arena. I’ll let you know how it pans out.
