[LRUG] another beginner.. ruby but not rails

[Roland Swingler]

Depending on what you are doing on the web you might like to check out
Camping if you feel that what you are trying to do is too "small",
even for Rails.

http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/campingAMicroframework.html

Cheers,
Roland

On 5/4/07, Chris Parsons <chris at edendevelopment.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 3 May 2007, at 18:51, graham wrote:
>
> > How do people feel about this? Is it a case of 'if you want to use
> > ruby
> > on the web you're wasting your energy not using Rails'? Or do I just
> > need to refine my google skills? or just bring some code to the next
> > ruby meet ;-) ?
>
> I'd recommend using Rails exclusively for Ruby on the web, but learn
> some
> pure non web Ruby before moving to Rails. The Ruby Quiz[1] is quite good
> for standalone ruby solutions to coding problems, or you can pick a
> scripting
> task you might have done in perl and start solving it in Ruby. Make
> sure you've
> worked through this online book[2], too.
>
> IME a strong non-web Ruby background really helps when it comes to
> writing
> tidy and expressive Rails code.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
> [1] http://rubyquiz.com/
> [2] http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
>
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