[dba-Tech] Ruby on Rails

>You can disobey these conventions but to do so costs you a
>lot in terms of automation. I'm prepared to pay that price.
>There are a couple of standard installation packages that include everything
>you'll need. By everything I mean apache, a local web server called Webrick,
>MySQL and of course Ruby on Rails itself. itselfI used an increasingly
>popular one called Bitnami Rubystack.

If you want to use the RoR directory structure, how does that play with 
PHP & Perl projects already running under an existing Apache installation?

P.

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Arthur Fuller wrote:
> As I mentioned, I'm just getting started with RoR, but so far I'm very
> impressed with it. It makes several assumptions such as "convention over
> configuration", which means roughly that you will name various objects in a
> certain way. With a single command, you can create a whole directory tree
> for your application, complete with development, test and production
> directories. Many of the objects created within this tree, as well as the
> tables you create in the database and even their column names, are assumed
> to be called xxx. You can disobey these conventions but to do so costs you a
> lot in terms of automation. I'm prepared to pay that price.
> There are a couple of standard installation packages that include everything
> you'll need. By everything I mean apache, a local web server called Webrick,
> MySQL and of course Ruby on Rails itself. itselfI used an increasingly
> popular one called Bitnami Rubystack.
>
> The language is a dynamic language. No variables need be declared before
> use, and should you want to, you could change the datatype of a given
> variable anytime you want to.
>
> The approach takes a little getting used to, but results in very clean and
> minimal code. Following the instructions in the Getting Started chapter, I
> had a simple web site up and running (addressing a single table) complete
> with a start page, all the CRUD methods, and pages to add new records and
> edit existing records. This whole process took maybe 15 minutes.
>
> I'll continue to report on RoR as I progress through the book I'm following
> (Ruby on Rails Bible, by Timothy Fisher).
>
> A.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello Arthur,
>> never used it but would love to hear what you think about it,
>>
>>
>>     
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