Comments on: Agile Web Development with Rails First Impressions

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:02:41 +0000

There is also another good framework called Django. For example, it creates the data tables and all the admin interfaces for those tables.
http://djangoproject.com

It seems that you can only use django on the server, so a mixed development enviroment with coldfusion and django would not work together.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:39:27 +0000

All the examples of the book that I’ve read so far utilize variables and mixin functions, which is pretty clean when you consider the environment. There ARE no sql statements, even in the Controller, so I certainly have some respect for ERb compared to other implementations.

By: Nola

Nola — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:33:39 +0000

I would never write SQL in a ERB file. Anyone who does I think is breaking the M-V-C. I would run the sql in the controller and pass an array to the ERB file. Then in the ERB file, loop through the array and print.

It doesn’t have to be messy…

By: TheElder

TheElder — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:24:50 +0000

If you want to see more on Ruby Language check out:

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ which is a pretty good resource.

Also there is a nice ‘Try Ruby’ site that’s really cool as well at:

http://tryruby.hobix.com/