Rolling With Rails part 2
Curt Hibbs published the second part of his "Rolling With Rails":http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/03/rails.html article on OnLamp.com.
I love this quote from the "Slashdot thread":http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/04/1319242&tid=156:
bq. It's a collection of Java Best Practices rewritten in a 'cool' geeky language. Nothing new....
bq. Quite true. For example, Java Best Practice #1 is to avoid using long, detailed XML files for configuration, and instead use the programming languge itself, which is dynamically loaded and interpreted when needed.
bq. Another Java Best Practice is to let the framework write the tedious boilerplate code for you. For example, in Struts, you just run % struts myAppName and you're halfway done writing your Web application.
bq. Here's one more Java Best Practice: Avoid expensive, complex application server software, and do rapid development using the Web server that is built into the standard library. Then deploy to the Web server of choice with no code changes or quirky vendor-specific API hacks.