peace_of_mind

Could be that's because there isn't a forum for it, K. [whispers]If you add it they will post [/whispers]

I've heard some good things about it before on other forums. Might be worth a looksee. How's about this: I pledge a minimum of 15 posts/threads in a Ruby forum.

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DaWei

I have no preference. Building scripting languages with C/C++ cores is so cheap, resource-wise, that they're bound to continue to proliferate. Once they're out, someone else is going to put them on "rails" (add some useful framework). They have the advantage that Dartmouth Basic had in the old days. You don't have to know too much about programming (in the "under the hood" sense), they do many difficult things for you, and all you have to do is learn a little syntax. The marketplace probably won't support more than a half-dozen at a time in any real sense. Only time and the marketing abilities of the creators will determine which ones survive and have any kind of extensive audience. As long as you have the ability to create and chop forums without a lot of hassle, you may as well just work with whatever comes down the pike and gains adherents.

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pr0gm3r

I think Ruby is like Python programming language right ?

Ruby is a scripting langugage and it is easy to use..

This is new to me. Thanks all..

btw here is their homepage
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Silvanus

It's closer to Perl- i.e, ugly.

I've been thinking about learning Ruby- I have it installed- but I'm totally repelled by the syntax. I guess I'm spoiled because I started with Python.

pr0gm3r

lol... oh ya cool I am about to learn perl to program script on my linux box.
Thats good you understand python programming language, just take it as a learning experience and for your knowledge.

I guess I'll try Ruby and see how it is run... ^__^

Thank you for the info

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Dameon

I was interested in trying Ruby, more specificly Ruby on Rails. However, I shortly after saw the syntax. Ew.

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DaWei

I just downloaded it (Ruby) today, because of this thread. I agree with you on the syntax, makes me wonder exactly what thought processes drive the decisions, and then I ask myself why I feel that way, and I don't exactly know. It seems strained, to me, but others must not feel the same way. I'm certainly going to defer installing the rails at this point.

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Lich

I just gave rails a download after reading an interesting article in Software Development magazine (it will be online soon to read @ http://www.sdmagazine.com/articles/2005/0511/). But as a web developer, Ruby on Rails has some interesting implimentation options that make it a breeze to develop some web apps. I mean, being able to code without the useage of {} makes it easier to not overlook stuff, and being able to spit out an entire database from mySQL with 1 line of code is nothing to sneeze at.

Software Development is also available in print form for free, it's pretty awsome and reccomend subscribing. There should be details on the site, it's another tradepub periodical.

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ivan

I will try ruby but I am currently busy with C

Mjordan2nd

I've actually wanted to try Ruby for about a year. I told my father's friend, whom I hold in quite high esteem programming-wise, that I was thinking about learning Python, and he told me to check Ruby out. He seemed to be a pretty big Ruby advocate.

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