great!

i'm currently learning Ruby and will host my first ruby on rails site soon

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Velma is this applicable for Paid COmutinghost.com as well or this is only for trap17.com?

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Language is very simple, but how can I write scripts? I work on Dreamweaver with php, mysql server tehnologi , exists any program for integration Dream with Ruby?

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Looks promising, i've read each reply, but i'm still confused. What exactly is Ruby? Is it like HTML? Or something else?

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Hi,






The extension of Ruby files is rb. To develop your web application in Ruby on Rails, you have to know MVC (Model-View-Controller). Some people think that Rails is better than others because Rails force developers to design their architecture under MVC pattern. There are the "controllers" folder, the "models" folder, the "views" folder under the "app" folder.

In some programming languages such as JSP, and ASP, you have to set up server site using with other technologies such as TomCat, IIS and Apache. Some users have failed to install them.

In Ruby on Rails, you only need to type "ruby script/server", then the server of your web application runs quickly.

Ruby started from Japan and Rails invented because of the weakness of PHP.
In PHP, some coding are repately used.
For example, connection to DB.
Therefore, there is a strictly rule in Rails which is "DO NOT REPEAT YOURSELF".

If you are interested and would like to know more about RoR, I would like to recommend you to buy this book.
Rails Solutions - Ruby On Rails Made Easy (2007)

You can download this book from the following link.
http://rapidshare.com/files/32868608/00228hs.rar


The source code can be downloaded from this link
http://www.friendsofed.com/downloads/15905...lsSolutions.zip


This book is amazing and very easy for a non-programming web designer to build a web application in RoR.
The autor explains what MVC is; what Ruby is; what Ruby on Rails is; what involves in Object-oriented programming.
Moreover, the book starts from the history of web programming languages and compares each of them.
I also bought this book and have done one big CMS within 1 month. Isn't it fast?
If you are pretty new with RoR, you do not have to worry about that because I read the book, did tutorials and finished my project within 1 month.
Therefore, the video show creating a blog website within 15 minutes is not strange for me anymore. It could happen if you really use proper IDE.


If you would like to use IDE, you can use the TextMate on Mac OS X and the E-texteditor on Window.
There are so many Ruby on Rails supported IDE used in Eclipse and IntelliJ.
The best IDE editor for Ruby on Rails is TextMate.
The screencasts that you have seen on Ruby on Rails websites have used TextMate.
The tutorials and examples you can see on most websites and forums are also for Mac OS X users.

If you use Window, you can download 30 day trail version of the E-texteditor.
At the beginning, I did not know the different syntax of Mac OS X and Window.
I tried and could not make it work. I got lost several days.
For example, to run the server, you have to type "ruby script/server" in the command mode on Window.
In Mac OS X, you only need to type "script/server". There are many differences.

The reason I recommend the above book is because of that.
In the book, the author explains how to set up Ruby on Rails on Window step by step very clearly and precisely.


Good Luck!

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