On reading Paul Graham`s essays on computer languages, I was struck by some interesting points he makes. This blog entry could just as well be called "What Paul Graham made me realize about Ruby and Rails."
Ruby has been described as an absolutely pure object-oriented scripting language and a genuine attempt to combine the best of everything in the scripting world. Ruby is written in C, and it was designed with Perl and Python capabilities in mind. While its
Ruby is a powerful and dynamic open source, object-oriented language that I began developing in 1993. Ruby runs on many platforms, including Linux and many flavors of UNIX, MS-DOS, Windows 9x/2000/NT, BeOS, and MacOS X.
Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, talks with Bill Venners about two kinds of nameless functions in Ruby, blocks and closures.
I`ve said it before, but it bears repeating: There`s nothing interesting about how Ruby on Rails scales. We`ve gone the easy route and merely followed what makes Yahoo!, LiveJournal, and other high-profile LAMP stacks scale high and mighty.
The use of Ruby and Rails in developing Basecamp seems to have sparked interested in both language and framework. So if you want to learn more about Ruby, I’ve compiled a Getting Started list of references. If you want to know more about the Rails frame
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