Dominic Da Silva of Developer.com says Ruby is fast becoming "the language of choice for rapid application development and testing." He has a how-to article in Ruby on Rails that provides an introduction to the language and walks you through how to create a simple web application with it. The article shows you how to download Ruby (version 1.2.1, if you don't have it already) and install it and the Rails framework and MySQL.

Da Silva provides screenshots of steps, including:

• How to create a database table

• Preparing Your Rails Application to Use MySQL

• Generate the (Create, Read, Update and Delete) CRUD operations for your database table

"Rails provides the scaffolding to get you started with CRUD operations, leaving you with the task of enhancing your application with the business rules. That is the beauty of Rails; it follows the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, effectively making the easy things simple, and giving you more time to work on the hard stuff," Da Silva explains.

See the Developer.com site for the full article with screenshots and links. [...read more...]

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