This Wednesday 16th November, Glenn Goodrich will be joining us for a Ruby AMA!
From 1pm - 2pm (PST), Glenn will be taking all of your Ruby and Rails questions — Right here!
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See you then!
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Hey Pullo. The book is focused on creating a site with Rails. It mentions the API aspects of Rails in the Advanced chapter as somethign the reader can learn next. So, short answer: no. Sorry.
I have been programming since I was about 12, which let’s just say was a LONG time ago. I went from basic to .NET to ASP.NET and then found Rails in about 2008 , I think. I immediately loved the framework and it lead me to change my entire career around Ruby and Rails. It’s been a pretty great ride.
BTW, I work in several languages now, but Ruby is still one of the biggest.
Hey mrlagmer, thanks for the questions. The answer is: maybe. I am a pretty big “use the right tool for the job” kind of programmer, so if Rails is a good fit, yes. For example, my last big project had microservices, etc. (all the buzzwords) and we did the services in Rails but the UI in Node/Express. Make sense? I think Rails is excellent for many applications, but not all of them.
Pullo, I used ActionCable in a prototype for a client recently. The use case was a “Kudos”-type app that looked a bit like Slack. It was easy to use and pretty cool, if you don’t mind the Redis dependency.
Well, really anything that requires a more real-time experience, like a chat app. Incidentally, we have a tutorial on the Ruby channel about that very thing. If you want to see when someone comes online or someone mentions/messages you, etc. That kind of stuff.
Hello ruprict.I’m a front-end developer who is also interested in programming.About 3 years ago I started practicing PHP but it was a total mess for me.Recently I’ve found few RoR and Python tutorials and I was curious about whether they can contribute positively to my career (web & mobile development) or do you think that there are more suitable languages and tools rather than RoR and Python?
I think you can definitely add to your skills learning Ruby or Python. I recently wrote about why I thought Rails was still a great thing to learn, and one of my reasons was it teaches you the conventions of the web. As you study Rails’ conventions, you learn why they are there and what problem they solve. This tells you the challenges of the web. Then you can learn to use other tools (gems) to solve them or make your own. I would certainly encourage you to learn a backend framework/language, and, of course, I would say go with Rails…
