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I dont know anything about Rails, but when searching about Rails Apps or coding, usually the developer use Wordpress CMS for their blog and not Rails
Is that because Rails prevent single user and not capable for creating a personal blog?
Why would anyone want to reinvent the wheel? You don't need to build an entire app/framework for your blog and personal website, but Wordpress does everything you would want from a blog engine, the best part being the infinite theming possibilities. Plus, its extremely customizable if you want to include your own code.
Ruby on Rails otherwise is more than capable of building powerful web applications like blog engines.
You'll also find developer blogs on Tumblr, Posterous (a rails app, I believe) and other free blogging services. I would guess that there number of developers (Rails or otherwise) out there see any real benefit in writing their own blogging software when there are plenty of existing options out there to choose from, many of them good.
One noteable exception is https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll which takes a different, more lightweight approach to blogging software. It's a Ruby app (not Rails) and I think I heard (or read) it referred to as blogging for hackers. I know some developers use this too.
Wordpress has been established for a long time and more people know about it. Hence, it is easier to find developers to work on your wordpress site vs a Rails site.
Rails is capable of creating a blog site as seen by numerous CMS such as Browser CMS, Radiant, etc. Also, https://github.com/fdv/typo created a very nicely done blogging engine for Rails which is in many ways comparable to Wordpress.
Anyway, Wordpress or Rails depends on what you are building, who you are building it for and who will manage it in the future. Hope this helps!
PS: It is much cheaper to hire a wordpress developer (PHP) on odesk vs Rails developer
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I want to develop a personal blogging website using ASP.NET MVC 4.
I know that I could be using WordPress/ Joomla/ Orchard/ Umbraco/ Funnelweb, etc., instead of reinventing the wheel but I really wish to try it out myself.
I do not want my website to look like some beatle-aged archaic remain. I see plugins like Akismet/ Prettify/ Markdown/ nrelate that add amazing functionalities to your blog. But I am not really sure if I would be able to use any of these in my custom application as most of them are PHP based. I want to stick under the Microsoft roof and implement technologies like HTML5, CSS3 Silverlight5 and WCF 4.0, along with ASP.NET MVC 4. (At least thats what I plan to do)
I understand that I need to develop a scalable database design that could accomodate newer functionalities in the future. Additionally, the exorbitant focus on SEO and cross-browser capabilities is overwhelming. Permanent links for individual blogs, internal navigation, video-embedding inside posts, etc., sound like building Rome in a day
Please if you could guide me personally or direct me to appropriate resources, it would be very helpful.
I am sort of doing it right now on my own. It's not done yet but it will give you an idea: MvcBloggy.
Also, have a look at FunnelWeb source code. It's written in C# and uses ASP.NET MVC 3 I believe but it's a really good resource and easy to follow.
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Is the Rails for Zombies course on CodeSchool useful?
I am thinking weather it is worth my time, taking it and if it really provides useful resources?
I haven't done any other CodeSchool courses till now. What do you think about the platform? Is it worth paying for other payed courses?
Are there any high quality free online web development courses?
It's meant just to get you excited with the awesome Rails features :)
It will give you the very basics of Ruby and Rails and nothing more.
Actually the framework is much more complicated and time consuming. If you really would like to work with it, that course might be a showcase of some of it's best features.
Anyway it's worth checking it out if you are Ruby or Rails beginner.
The best thing about the current ruby/rails eco-system is there are a multitude of learning resource options out there, and it should't be too hard for anyone to find the ones suited to their needs/aptitude/...
Try out the Rails For Zombies course and a few other CodeSchool courses for free, and decide for yourself if you like them, and want to go for the paid courses.
I am partial to Ruby on Rails Tutorial as the best free resource to learn web development with Rails. The book available for free online. It provides the best introduction to all the concepts & tools involved while working with ruby/rails to build web applications.
RailsCasts - both the free version & the premium version - would be my next recommendation in building up skills.
Take a look at the answers for Best online (free) resources for learning Ruby on Rails? to learn about more alternatives, and pick what works for you.
Quite a few people in the ruby community rave about Why's poignant guide to ruby as one of the best resources to learn ruby, but it didn't work for me. After spending a little time on it, I moved on to Learn to program which turned out to be a perfect fit for my style :-)
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I'm a college student trying to make a web community with friends. Although we are not experienced developers by any means, we have taken courses on JAVA and some web programming languages (PHP, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, HTML).
At this point, we need to decide on a web framework and begin learning. I have narrowed down my list to Ruby on Rails and Codeigniter, but I am really not sure why I should pick one over the other.
Thanks in advance.
Pick the one you want to learn and go with it.
I will personally recommend Rails because:
it teaches you a lot of best practices if you do things the Rails Way™
Ruby is a fun, easy-to-learn, expressive language
the community is really big, enthusiastic, and very helpful
there's great books and tutorials available all over the internet
There is nothing like the good framework. It highly depends on, in no particular order :
your skills
your tastes (Yes, it does matter a lot)
your willingness to learn
technical constraints. Your hosting company may support only Ruby or only PHP
...
I personally had the occasion to develop with CodeIgniter and I pretty much enjoyed it. It is light, well documented and leaves you with a lot of freedom.
I also have a good friend for whom Ruby On Rails is the only framework deserving the name of "framework".
If your project is ambitious, a good idea to make your point could be to make a trivial application like a TODO list with both framework and then pick the one that fits your need.
Hope this helps.
If there is no time constraint (as you need to learn both ruby lang and rails framework) and want to know the best practices, i would recommend RubyonRails.
If you have time constraint, then go ahead with Codeigniter. It is easy to learn and well documented.
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What are the WordPress alternatives for Ruby on Rails? How do they compare to WordPress?
Refinery looks really simple but I don't have an in depth comparison to WordPress. Looks like it has a lot less features but likely easier to maintain and extend upon. It's pretty standard to write really crappy code in the WordPress community.
I've been using WordPress more or less against my will for about two four years now (since I started using other frameworks (I've started to really love WP again)). I think there is no "good Rails alternative". Of course there are a lot of blog engines but none have as many plugins available or are as well known with clients. Let's be honest, WP has a fantastic front-end, clients seem to like that. The reason "we developers" look for Rails alternatives is obviously because Rails developer aren't comfortable with WP. But there's no platform out there that has the same out-of-the-box completeness and user friendliness as WP. For blog-like purposes that is of course.
Publify can be a answer, but I'm not able to compare with WordPress.
You may want to look into Wordscript ; it includes API's written in Ruby and PHP that connects to existing WordPress databases and returns json structures (made from generated SQL).
Useful if you want to keep full administrative features of WordPress, and have a somewhat simple WordPress site. Neither version requires WordPress to be installed locally, but you can't really do anything administrative with the api or comments/custom fields (yet). Also the API is much faster and consumes a fraction of the resources WordPress would.
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Please advice me some really great Ruby on Rails 3 application which i can use like example of best practices in Rails 3. The idea is i want to have the app on my hdd which i can use like reference when i have any questions how to implement some feature. It could be any blog engine, or app like Redmine does not matter but it should have almost all elements/functionality which is used to have any web application. And it should be done by using best practices from Ruby and Rails 3 point of view.
There are definitely many apps on github to learn from. However a lot of solutions are very unique for particular contexts and everyone is always at some stage in their learning. Even in the best apps you should be able to find plenty to disagree with.
Here's a list of a few notable ones.
This is rubygems.org, strong community effort, has a lot of neat practices: https://github.com/rubygems/gemcutter
This project isn't necessarily best practices, but it's so loud and has so many people involved in working out all kinds of initially-written crap, that it may shape into something interesting: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
This is a popular e-commerce rails app for you to build upon. Haven't read the code, but again, it's pretty popular, which means, well supported by community: https://github.com/railsdog/spree
For more check out awesome github's explore page: https://github.com/explore.
P.S. Bucketwise is a Rails2 app created by Jamis Buck (of 37signals and Rails core). It's still worth watching even if you're looking for Rails 3 insights.
I like the Getting Started with Rails guides. They're not really a complete app, but they are good examples of how things should be done and should be current.
You can also search on Github for Rails apps. The source code should be viewable, and if you have an account you can watch the various projects and see what's new.
Opinions of "best practices" vary widely. I would just read a ton of rails 3 code on github, and then read a ton more! By reading code, you will learn what is common in the rails world and develop your own best practices.
rails3-devise-mongoid is a good one
as is ror_ecommerce