what is ruby or rails?

**halfasleeps** · Jun 15, 2006 07:31

maybe im just dense but i havent heard anything about ruby or rails until recently....what is it? is it something i should know? is it clientside or serverside? do you need an IDE to develop with it? what is it primarily used for? what is it closest too......answers to any of my questions will be appreciated thanks!

**Bob Carologees** · Jun 15, 2006 07:41

its a microsoft flash framework it lets yo do cool animationz n stuff and it has an MPV archetectare which is wel gud for COOL 3d afects

**Sorccu** · Jun 15, 2006 07:45

Originally Posted by Bob Carologees

its a microsoft flash framework it lets yo do cool animationz n stuff and it has an MPV archetectare which is wel gud for COOL 3d afects

**vgarcia** · Jun 15, 2006 07:51

Ruby is a general purpose scripting language, like Perl or Python. It's cross-platform and can be used on Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.

Ruby on Rails is a web development framework written in Ruby. It competes with the likes of Struts (Java), Django (Python), etc. Its main purpose is to make web development easier by enforcing a set of standards and doing some of the lower-level work (i.e. sanitizing data for SQL queries) for you.

This is all server-side, but Ruby on Rails includes support for dynamically creating JavaScript code, which is client-side.

You don't need an IDE to develop with Ruby on Rails. A plain old text editor (preferably one that can do syntax highlighting) will work. If you do want an IDE, there's RadRails, which is free.

**halfasleeps** · Jun 15, 2006 09:48

Originally Posted by vgarcia

Ruby is a general purpose scripting language, like Perl or Python. It's cross-platform and can be used on Windows, Linux, OS X, etc.

Ruby on Rails is a web development framework written in Ruby. It competes with the likes of Struts (Java), Django (Python), etc. Its main purpose is to make web development easier by enforcing a set of standards and doing some of the lower-level work (i.e. sanitizing data for SQL queries) for you.

This is all server-side, but Ruby on Rails includes support for dynamically creating JavaScript code, which is client-side.

You don't need an IDE to develop with Ruby on Rails. A plain old text editor (preferably one that can do syntax highlighting) will work. If you do want an IDE, there's RadRails, which is free.

thanks, do you know if your can develop with ruby on rails using the dreamweaver 8 IDE? im not seeing an option for it, but maybe theres a plugin or something.

know any good sources for learning rails, from a "new to ruby, but not new to programming" ?

thanks.

**Fenrir2** · Jun 16, 2006 05:11

RubyWeaver:
http://www.ridingtheclutch.com/entry.cfm?id=58

a free (and a little old) ruby book online:
http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/pickaxe/

**halfasleeps** · Jun 16, 2006 05:47

hey thanks i downloaded rubyweaver but it seems to just be a single .mxp file, my computer doesnt recognize that extension....am i suppost to put this in the dreamweaver folder somewhere?