Rails Party!
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005In less than 48 hours I will be in what will be perhaps the geekiest party I could ever dream up. I have invited 6 of my closest coworkers to, with me, examine and play with Ruby on Rails. Yes, I organized it. Yes, I researched it. Yes, I am a huge fucking geek. For those of you who read my blog and may be of the PHP persuasion, Rails is a framework well worth checking in to. Support for it is not nearly as widespread as PHP support (read: every fricken Linux box online), but it’s only been around for a year, so I would anticipate the numbers will only increase (especially if you buy into all the hype, which I do because I’m a fanboy).
Also, some insights I’ve made into the Ruby and Rails communities:
- Lots of Mac users
- Good graphic design sensibility
- Strong spiritual undercurrent in the community