Ruby Wrap Up
Today marks the last day of my Ruby portion of my Ruby/Python Bootcamp. Unfortunately with the Christmas and related Christmas stresses, and an impending move, I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with the language, beyond the fundamentals.
I did a dumb thing, and started to try to get a website up and going on Rails 2.2. Rails is a great framework, although I’ve found the learning curve beyond your basic scaffolding and MVC set up to be fairly high. I made extensive use of this Rails API guide and it certainly helped a lot, as did the Ruby on Rails guides portal. The reason this was as dumb idea had nothing to do with Rails or Ruby, and everything to do with the fact I hate making websites.
Seriously, I’m on holiday. I should be staying away from websites for a while.
So, I didn’t end up doing much on the website I promised I’d show, and there’s not really anything to show, yet. I did manage to set up an excellent workflow with SVN and my web-host, which will eliminate the need for an FTP client, and Ruby did help me complete my partial understanding of RESTful design.
So, I walk away after a week of Ruby with a rudimentary knowledge of Ruby syntax, which is enough to let me read Ruby code and fill in the gaps myself, a stronger knowledge of RESTful design and a much smarter development workflow.
Thanks, Ruby.
So, tomorrow, or tonight, I’ll kick off Python, and I’ll also see if I can’t use it while investigating a few other programming related interests, like OpenGL programming or some AI stuff, if I can figure it out. Hopefully I’ll be able to get as much out of Python as I got out of Ruby.