>>>Hi,
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>>>For a little while now I've been reading up on Ruby on Rails, a very interesting Web development framework. I am not an expert, only a curious person so far, but am going to try to bring here some information about the product and why it got me interested. Often I'll quote from a Rails site or book since it will be more correct than my attempts.
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>>>Rails was extracted from an application (Basecamp) developed by David Heinemeier Hansson around 2005. It is open source, free software, now in version 3.0. The best part is not that it is free, nice as that is, but that it has very powerful approaches at the core and that it has developed a very vibrant community around it. As we know from our experience with FoxPro, the community can be a feature of a product. That is why I asked Michel to start this section for Ruby on Rails. I think people here will find it an powerful and appealing product.
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>>>Rails makes certain assumptions about the type of data based applications that developers often write and provides the means to go about it very quickly, yet allowing wide ranging customization later. All Rails applications are implemented using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. All Rails applications have testing support baked right in. It has a number of powerful approaches at the core. The one I like best is "Convention over configuration". If you accept their conventions, you can save A LOT of time.
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>>>Here are some references:
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>>>http://rubyonrails.org/
>>>http://rubyonrails.org/applications
>>>http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
>>>
>>>I think it is really worth your time to investigate this product.
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>>ISTR Rick Borup has gotten into RoR in a big way. He's not on this forum much anymore.
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>Thanks for the info. Just wrote to Rick and asked him to please make comments in this forum about his experience with Rails, especially from the point of view of someone coming from VFP.

Now I remember listening to a FoxShow he did last September: http://traffic.libsyn.com/akselsoft/FoxShow67.mp3