Learning Ruby to use Rails is tempting. Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> Gary Nutbeam wrote: >> needing to learn Ruby. > > But why wouldn't you just use Rails and learn Ruby in the process? The > "effort" required to learn Ruby pales in comparisson to the advantages > using Ruby on Rails might give you, imho. > > Ruby is an excellent language, not much different from Python with its > own set of advantages and problems (I really mis python's white-space > indentation for example, but that is fully compensated by Ruby's nice > OOP features). With a book like "Programming Ruby" you would be up to > speed in a few days. > > Rails gives you much more than a comparable set of Python libraries > which are gobled together with sticky tape. It provides you not just > with an superbly integrated and consistent set of components. Rails > gives you: > - (real) automation (take a look at scaffolding for quick prototyping) > - terrific documentation (the videos are *not* a gimmick, for example) > - an enthousiastic, supportive user community (that alone is an > incredible help and time saver) > > have fun, > > Iwan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
