Ruby on Rails
The Currently Playing sidebar section on the left is doing nothing unusual; it’s simply pulling 4 entries from my database. It’s the bit you can’t see that’s more interesting – the back end where I put the albums into the database is driven by Ruby On Rails
I’m a Ruby virgin, and so I’ve never touched Rails before, either. I was pleasantly surprised by how nice it all is, particularly considering how young Rails still is.
Rails does a pretty good job of making your web application feel a whole lot more like programming a ‘proper’ object-orientated application, rather than a whole bunch of loosely connected PHP pages with some messy database code scattered throughout. I like it.
My album entry system consists of secure login authentication, nicely formatted album lists for display & editing, and an automatic artwork downloader which grabs the album art off the internet, resizes it, and converts it to jpg. The entire thing takes a mere 124 lines of Ruby.
If you’re able to find a webserver supporting Ruby, I highly recommend checking it out.
- I’m really impressed. What a pity that my hosts don’t support Ruby. — H2ORANGE Jul 7, 01:56 AM #
- I agree with you. The power of Rails is crazy, yet it is a lot of fun to work with. Glad to see someone else checking it out as well. Take care! — Pedro Jul 31, 01:08 AM #
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