>>ISTR Rick Borup has gotten into RoR in a big way. He's not on this forum much anymore.
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>Al (and Alex),
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>FWIW I just published "An Introduction to Ruby and Rails", the white paper from my pre-con session at Southwest Fox 2010. This paper introduces both the Ruby language and the Rails framework, focusing on their installation and use on a Windows® platform with a perspective geared toward experienced Visual FoxPro® developers. It's available for download from the Fox developers page of my website at http://www.ita-software.com/foxpage.aspx.
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>I hope anyone reading it finds it to be a good starting place for VFP developers who are interested in Ruby and Rails. It's probably unique in its perspective, but there are literally hundreds of great resources out there; the paper includes references to several of the ones I found most useful. There's also a more recent book not referenced in the paper that looks really interesting: "Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial" by Michael Hartl (December 2010, ISBN 0321743121).
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>-Rick

I downloaded & read your fine white paper, and am curious enough to want to explore Ruby more. Based on your experience, in a few sentences, could you please give a VFP developer your opinion on what kinds of things Ruby and/or Rails do NOT do very well, in terms of programming implementation and/or performance and/or types of applications?

-m.