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Ruby on Rails 0.10.0 is Out

Written by Shanti A. Braford February 25th, 2005in Ruby on Rails, Tech Stuff.

I’ve been meaning to post about Ruby on Rails for a while now.

There was a flurry of buzz over Rails a few weeks ago. I’ve been reading up on it and trying to cut through all the hype and see where its sweet spot may lie. One thing that impressed me was that Rails is being used to develop the fabulous Basecamp, as well as 43 Things, and now Evan Williams’ latest project, ODEO.

There is definitely something sexy going on with Rails. It reminds me too much of Paul Graham’s Beating the Averages essay, about his experiences using Lisp in his startup (Viaweb) which went on to be acquired by Yahoo (becoming Yahoo Store).

I’ll be posting my progress with Rails as I go along. I’m sure there are plenty of PHP hackers out there who are curious about all this Rails buzz, and whether it can really live up to the hype.

This latest release of Ruby on Rails features:

Routing: Pretty URLs of all flavors and fashions can now be specified using an easy to understand Routing syntax made in Ruby. This means no more wrestling with mod_rewrite in Apache to get custom URL schemes.
Web Services: Action Web Service is a whole new add-on framework for Action Pack that enables SOAP with WSDL and XML-RPC web services to be made with Rails ease.
Components: With components it?s possible to call other actions and controllers for their rendered response while executing another action.
And more…