WHY RUBY ON RAILS ROCKSFROM .NET DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Personal experience

“Recent” productivity jump thanks to Asp.net MVC + jQuery (http://weekplan.net)

Railscasts videos and TeachMeToCode videos while commuting

After three weeks of learning, I felt I was more productive in RoR than in Asp.net / Asp.net MVC

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Why does RoR rock?

No wasteful compile time

Scaffolding

Generate controller actions / views / models / database schema in one command

Easy routing

Emailing the way it should be

View: notifier/message_notification.erb

Usage

Model: notifier.rb

Three environments out of the box

Migrations

Gems / Plugins system

gem install authlogic

ruby ./script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper

Open Source community

GitHub.com easy A/B testing (abingo) easy postmark lib (postmark-rails) easy paging (will_paginate) easy RpxNow lib (rpx_now) easy amazon s3 upload (aws-s3) easy full text search (texticle)

Testing framework

autotestRun the related tests in the background when a file is modified

Heroku

Cloud solution for ruby on rails Can add and remove modules

Database Emailing Exception notification Performance monitoring Gem installation Full text search

Super easy deployment> deploy “Fixed a typo in about us page”

Easy Ajax

_form.html.erb

create.js.erb – AJAX SPECIFIC

feedback_controller.rb

application.js – AJAX SPECIFIC

Elegant validation

Easy authentication

loggedin?current_user

Free

Works on free operating systems Out of the box databases are free too IDEs are not necessary

For a proper IDE: RubyMine from jetBrains Open source mindset

People are more inclined to open source something rather than try to make money out of their code.

Questions?

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