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My first experience with RoR

As I was thinking of implementing customized filterable datalists in Alfresco, my focus shifted to RoR. I had heard about RoR being simple scripting language that would help me in converting my thoughts to machine-actionable instructions! With the hope of creating the list in an hours time, I quickly committed myself to RoR inclusion.

RoR comes with its own set of problems. First the RoR examples that work with older version dont work anymore with 2.3.4. The latest version 3.0 was not available for download. Anyways, I downloaded, Aptana's RadRails 2.05 and started my experiments. RoR promotes convention over configuration. This looked very interesting and promising.

I had to struggle to get proper libmySQL.dll to get connected to my MySQL server. It seemed that Ruby 2.3.4 does not work with latest dll of MySQL (learnt from posts across the net). Finally, I was good to go. Indeed, I could get my first application (CRUD) in just 2 hours. Here are my initial opinions on RoR.

I consider RoR as another web framework, intends to ease the developer's effort. Its important to know Ruby programming constructs if you want to advance to next round of programming. Next, its important to unlearn old thinking and learn RoR related constructs, Form helpers, syntax, conventions. Thats too much for me who was looking to develop an app in a quick time. If I have to quickly get my application up, I better know RoR in detail. That simply states, I need more time to learn Ruby on Rails. Probably, developing an RoR application is easier, once I know RoR in depth! I have not lost hope.

I am now thinking of implementing the solution, with what I know already :) I will use YUI data table with JSON and use simple servlet in my Tomcat container. 'Known devil is better than unknown angel!!?'

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