Ruby on Rails Sucks? I Don't Think So

I have been playing around with Ruby on Rails for a while. You know how to program and know the commands for it, you’ll think it’s cool. Ruby on Rails is a MVC framework for the language Ruby. MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. The model is the database logic, the controller is the application logic, and the view is the presentation logic. Using this style, it keeps things organized.

People will think Ruby on Rails suck because they don’t know how to catch on to it. I admit, I was originally one of them, until I read Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition (Amazon). This book showed me how powerful this framework was and how much it was capable of doing. Doing validations is a breeze, embedding variables and Ruby code is a breeze in the views, routes are easy to configure (no .htaccess), database migrations to keep things in order, ActiveRecord to ease querying, updating, and inserting (no more SQL queries), and there’s so many other cool things with it. There is even loads of plugins on the Internet and on Github that do kickass things.

Does Ruby on Rails use a lot of RAM? From what I have notice from playing around with it I haven’t notice it take so much RAM. Besides, if I needed more RAM later and I was generating the money from the site, I’d just upgrade the server, piece of cake.

I plan on developing new sites using Ruby on Rails. PHP is just getting old (the new namespace delimiter is , and that’s an escape character!)