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Closed 12 years ago.
I am interested in learning Ruby/RoR, but it seems to have lost the popularity it had a few short years ago, and from what I've read, few webhosts support it. Is it on its way out?
Still seems to be growing in the U.S., it's just not as hyped as it was. See job stats from indeed
I wouldn't say it's on its way out, it just lost some of the hype--which isn't a bad thing.
I don't think there has ever been a ridiculous amount of hosting support; but there are a few, there's a list of hosts that provide rails support at http://www.rubyonrailswebhost.com/
No.
I find more and more nice little startups that are using it (my favorite recent finds: toggl.com and zencoder.com). There are also many good web hosts, but in my experience the best of them is heroku.com.
If you're interested in learning it, find a local user group. There's always people there willing to share their interest.
I worked for some start-ups and all of them used Ruby on Rails.
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Closed 9 years ago.
Can anyone suggest me a good RoR open source project that covers a lot of Rails fundamentals but yet is simple, and most importantly has lot of features or atleast bug fixes that are yet to be implemented? I checked out a few like Spree, Substruct, etc. but could not zero in upon one, that is simple and has features to develop. I am not sure if any of them even had list of bugs to be fixed., though features will be better.
Check Diaspora, this is the Diaspora Github page.
Here is the List of open Issues
Here is the Diaspora Installation Guide
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Closed 9 years ago.
I'm looking for a very concise guide to using rails. I've done lots of work with other similar frameworks like Django so I just need a very short tutorial. Does anything like that exist?
Thanks!
This is best guide for those who are new to rails..
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
If you're willing to put up with a few quick video tutorials, Rails for Zombies by EnvyLabs (railsforzombies.org) gives a good overview of the framework.
If you decide to check it out, know this: at the time of this writing, there's one error in the tutorials. The code they show you for writing a basic redirect is missing a prepended slash on the URI. (At least, according to the interpreter they use for the accompanying exercises, it's incorrect.)
Other than that small gripe, in my opinion it's a great way to onboard yourself and colleagues in Rails, before drilling down into the gritty details.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I've started learning RoR and I really like it - but it feels like it's oriented in one specific way - a very basic MVC model.
Which type of web application might not benefit from using RoR? Are there any signs I can find while planning the architecture?
I don't think there's a specific technical reason not to use RoR - it's fast, clean and can probably do anything PHP does.
The only reasons I can think of are the same consideration as to any other technology : Do you have the right people, is the legacy code (if any) compatible, are you in a market that makes it easy to find RoR people to support the code, and so forth.
There's also a nice Quora thread about this question :
If you have to install your website on a client machine that does not support rails/ruby.
If your code needs to be maintained afterwards by people that do not have rails knowledge.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I have seen many people use MySQL, some Postgres and I know I have seen an Oracle adapter somewhere. But really - what should I use just starting out with my first Rails apps?
If you ask such question then probably there is no real difference for you.
Usually a specific DBMS is selected depending on:
Infrastructure limitations (e.g. Heroku provides only Postgres by
default).
Personal preferences (a space of endless holywars).
If you don't have neither first nor second, then choose the most popular, because the most popular means the most supported.
Your first app you should just use sqlite because it's easy and there's no setup required. You'll have enough to worry about with the rails framework, ruby, tdd, etc. Once you get better you should look into postgres. It's what is used by Heroku and most of the rubyists I admire mention their preference for postgres over MySql. I'm sorry but I don't have any specific links for this bias but I've seen it mentioned many times.
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Closed 11 years ago.
Background about myself:
I have about 3 years experience working in Java/J2EE. I am currently pursuing MS in Software Engineering at a reputed university. I have done several classwork projects on Ruby on Rails and can be considered at Intermediate level expertise with ROR.
I have an interview coming up next week for a Ruby on Rails developer position at a startup. I have already prepared all the basics of Ruby on Rails but didn't get a lot input on the questions asked for ROR developers. Can you guys help me with the preparation? Any materials, suggestions would be welcome.
Here are some responses prepared earlier: What Ruby and Rails Developers Ought To Know?
Some of this is going to depend on the level of the role your are looking at. If I was interviewing someone from the Java world I would be probing to make sure they understood some of the common Ruby idioms, particularly blocks and closures.
Create a github account and made some patch to several project.
Be active in Open source community. It's really a good start