Today is the second day of my dive using the RoR framework. I’ve been trying to read up on some tutorials and demonstrations using Ruby on Rails. I must say that it is quite interesting so far and even though there is going to be a definite learning curve coming from over 5 years of development using PHP, I don’t think it is an impossible one to overcome. What won me over was the 15 minute demonstration on how to deploy a pretty minimalistic blog in under 15 minutes. (check it out here: http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts)

I think it is time that I try to learn another language and so far, RoR is the path that I am going to take. With PHP, I had to write every line of code by myself and even with a framework such as CodeIgniter or CakePHP, extra time was needed to integrate the javascript and other fancy effects. Switching over to RoR, a lot of these external items will already be built in, speeding up the process. Not trying to say that I am turning my back on PHP, but a new pal to run along with won’t hurt.

Again, I must admit, after learning web development the long way, a little convention over configuration can only make things better.