Playing With Rails

I have been playing with writing a weblog using Ruby Rails. Rails is a little difficult to understand at first, but I am starting to get it. It really makes web app development simple. I wanted to note a few observations:

• You can go from nowhere to someplace fast.


• It is based on MVC, so if you understand that, you will not have any problems.


• You have to use database adapters. I'm not sure why they did not use ruby's dbi instead. If they would have used dbi then there would be no need for adapters. There would only be one adapter that could use any dbd you wanted to use. Seems like a design oversight to me.


• I didn't want to use a full fledged MySQL database for this, because I wanted something on the order of instiki. Given the options I decided to use SQLite. This is a cool little database. I have never used it before. I think that it is perfect for small apps like mine, probably apps considerably larger also.


• My HTML skills need help. I need to learn how to use style sheets.