Re: Seeking co-learners in Ruby on Rails development
- From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:59:29 -0400
Just as an FYI. There is some discussion of major reworking to some of the
subsystems for Drupal 8 that would make it far easier to use Drupal as a web
application engine.
Note: that Drupal 7 has yet to be released, so these improvements are a while
off.
HTH,
Everett Zufelt
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On 2010-07-30, at 8:54 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> Drupal, Joomla!, Plone, and Django are primarily content management systems
> rather than web application frameworks. None are as powerful and have as
> active a developer community as Rails. For example, check out the breadth
> and depth of the Rails 2010 conference that O'Reilly recently organized in
> Baltimore:
> http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010
>
> Also check out a partial list of deployed Rails apps on its official site,
> and compare that to sites produced with other systems.
>
> If you just want to create a CMS, I think Drupal is currently the best. If
> you want to create a more flexible site, however, including one with a
> RESTful API (supporting web 2.0 clients), Rails is the best choice. This
> factor is a strong one for me -- creating web sites with services that may be
> accessed not only via a generic browser but via dedicated clients on any
> platform or device using an API of that site (like Twitter, for example,
> which is developed in Rails).
>
> Jamal
>
>
> On 7/30/2010 8:14 AM, Homme, James wrote:
>> Hi Jamal,
>> Can you elaborate on why you think this? I know that Python has frameworks
>> like this. And there are the popular packages like Plone, Jumla, Drupal, and
>> others I can't think of right now.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
>> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:31 AM
>> To: blindwebbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; programmingblind; Program-l
>> Subject: Seeking co-learners in Ruby on Rails development
>>
>> As you may know, Ruby on Rails is a popular web application
>> framework. Its official web site is
>> http://RubyOnRails.org
>>
>> Besides documentation there, I found an excellent tutorial at
>> http://RailsTutorial.org
>>
>> I have included a text version of that tutorial, as well as many others
>> on the Ruby language and Rails package, in the archive
>> http://EmpowermentZone.com/ruby_doc.zip
>>
>> After extensive research on web content management systems and
>> application frameworks, I have decided that Rails is currently the best
>> fit for some sites I want to be able to do. Its power comes with
>> complexity, however, and, unfortunately, there are less resources
>> available for helping Windows developers use this framework compared to
>> Mac or Linux developers (I would develop on Windows and then deploy on a
>> Linux web host).
>>
>> So, I thought it could benefit my self-learning if other blind
>> developers were also pursuing that path together. We could share tips
>> along the way, hopefully helping one another out of jams, and
>> reinforcing motivation to continue.
>>
>> If anyone else on these lists is interested in learning Rails together,
>> or if you happen to know Rails already and can lend a hand, please speak up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jamal
>>
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