ONLamp: Rolling with Ruby on Rails

Funny, just weeks after I tried out Ruby on Rails at home, ONLamp are running a story demo-ing RoR.

I decided not to use in my next project because it doesn’t use XSLT for its templates. Instead, it uses eruby, which is ruby code blocks inside a template file, like ASP or PHP. Another reason for not using it, was the amazing amount of debian packages I had to install to run it. That worries me when I consider moving the application to a production environment. Still, (re)using multiple debian packages is a method that is miles ahead of PHP and its Copy everything into the distribution-way of working.

The story post on slashdot has quite a few positive, well-written, comments and very few ignorant rants.

Perhaps I need to take a better look.