Railing

I sat in on most of DHH’s Ruby on Rails presentation this afternoon, and I have to say I’m in danger of catching the religion. Like a good cult leader, Hansson is energetic, intelligent, and unwavering in his faith that his is the right path. Within 30 minutes of the end of the session I had installed Rails via DarwinPorts, though my schedule hasn’t left me much time to play with it.

I still have mixed feelings about Ruby due to its Perlish roots, but its OO purity and syntactic flexibility are appealing, and Rails just solidifies that.

On breaks there was some discussion about Rails “clones” and other web frameworks, from Cake to Django.