March 12, 17:19
When programmers speak of code as ugly or beautiful they reveal an appreciation of software that goes much deeper than the functionalistic appearance of their work. There are plenty of obvious and objective correlations between ugly and opaque code and defects and extendability, but the individual and psychological effects are at least equally interesting.
Whether bad code stems from duplication, verbose constructs, low coherence, or high coupling, it brings along a wide array of unwelcome feelings within the mindful programmer. Guilt (I should have done better) and fear (What if I can't do better?) are the most prominent, which in turn leads to procrastination as a short-termed escape from the unwanted feelings.
It's against this backdrop of feelings that I best explain my gratitude to Ruby. Ruby helps me avoid feelings of guilt or fear like no other programming language has in the past. The feedback loop between thought and code fulfilling those thoughts is effectively preventing impatience and uncertainty to take hold as a welcome for those other unwanted feelings.
Ruby doesn't make new things possible, but many things desirable. It also affords continous simplification and occasional breakthroughs at an for me unprecedented level. There's an immense sense of satisfaction in making less code do more on a regular sometimes even daily basis.
As a practical example, Ruby enabled me to program Basecamp in less than two man-months (which, however, doesn't map to either calendar months or the entire developing process for 37signals). That while learning the language and building a full-stack web framework (ORM-layer, controller, template system) called Rails (and soon to be released). It further allowed the system, though continous simplification and occasional breakthroughs, to adapt a wide range of new features without significantly increasing the codebase.
I owe my continued interest in programming to Ruby.
Challenge by Andrew on March 12, 18:45
Wow. Can you say some more about this? Can you give some specific examples of what in Ruby makes you feel this way, perhaps in contrast to other languages?
Challenge by Ruby Baby on March 13, 21:42
Yes please tell more. I also love Ruby and am tempted to start a brand new big web-project using mod_ruby instead of PHP. But I'd be curious to hear the experience of someone who's been there before I launch into this, to make sure it's not unwise. (Interested in Beta-testers for Rails?)
Challenge by thomas on March 14, 2:23
I very much agree with your assesment of Ruby. There's nothing very revolutionary about the language, but the combination of features and dynamicity makes it very easy (yet powerful) to work with. I find that Ruby doesn't get in my way.
I'm more productive (by far) programming in Ruby than in any other language that I've used.
Challenge by Aredridel on March 14, 6:45
I keep seeing mod_ruby mentioned as the way to do things.
I'd love everyone to take a look at FastCGI. Ruby and FastCGI are a great team, and there's advantages over being built into the webserver process. It's a little more platform-agnostic, and allows for process separation in scripts, which is good for security and just makes things nicer in a dynamic environment like Ruby's interpreter.
Challenge by Daniel Von Fange on March 15, 15:35
I am very interested in Rails. I've have wanted to do web application in Ruby since I learned the language. I can't wait till you release Rails.
Challenge by Hilarie on March 16, 0:55
For learning Ruby, are there any great, specific books or online resources that any of you recommend?
Thanks.
Challenge by David Heinemeier Hansson on March 16, 17:17
I'm preparing a presentation called "Ruby on Rails to Basecamp" that I'll be giving to a local Danish company that's contemplating using Rails on their next web-app project. I'll make it available online when it's done.
That should shed some more light on exactly what Rails is and how you can use it and Ruby to create applications like Basecamp.
Challenge by Rahul on May 22, 8:35
I am looking for a English manual for Ruby 1.6 .
Challenge by Mahavir Jain on June 02, 10:38
Rahul,
Try this Url www.ruby-lang.org/en/man-1.6/
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