Ruby Tuesday

Missed a meeting at the London Ruby club the other night as I was quite ill, however in order to make amends I thought I would talk a little about why I think Ruby is so interesting.

One of the greatest things to ever happen on the web was when Mosaic shipped with the view source button. That one initiative gave rise to millions of web developers, (I know because that’s how I started). The problem is, however, that after a while your markup (HTML/XHTML) code becomes cluttered with server side code and/or JavaScript what is needed is a way or organize the web page more effectively. This becomes even more apparent the first time you start on a large project where there are specialist players i.e. designers, coders etc. What’s needed is a functional way of separating the code from the design, Ruby does this quite well, so well in fact its one of the fastest growing web development languages at the moment. Another one of the reasons for Ruby's rapid growth is that it arrived at about the same time as AJAX and consequently has been able aid the rapid building of sites with AJAX style interactivity.

So what is Ruby  ? Well it’s just another scripting language, only this time with a nice framework (the rails in Ruby on Rails) that helps you separate out the code from the design, as it’s a programming language at its core, it can also be used with web services such as those of Amazon via the REST (XML over HTTP) based Amazon Web Services . Ruby works with AWS via a package called Ruby/Amazon it’s definitely worth taking a look if you’re interested in either web services or Ruby. 

Before using Ruby and AWS you need to obtain an Amazon Web Services developer token.

You should also apply for an Associates account.

Here are a few links for beginners with Ruby

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/StartAtTheBeginning

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/Tutorial

Good luck

Don

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