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[NMLUG] Ruby
I'm also impressed with Ruby. I have a C and then Perl background,
and tried and gave up on Python, but I've been working through the
pickaxe and Rails books over the last couple of months. Almost since
the day I began, 95% of my "new stuff" has been done in Ruby. Going
back to do fixup and feature work in my production Perl is now an
enlightening experience - I can see the difference in a powerful way:
the Perl seems ugly and riddled with unnecessary cruft by comparison.
Perl still has a clear edge with its CPAN, but I predict this benefit
wane in the next year or so, as Ruby seems to have a powerful
momentum.
Rails and its ActiveRecord object-relational mapping (ORM) facility is
the killer app for me though. You listen to the hype and you
understand it on a certain level, but you don't really become a rabid
believer, until you do start to do stuff in 1/10 the time it used to
take.
irb (Ruby's interactive shell) is another thing that you can't live
without, once you become accustomed to having that kind of tool
available.
Another thing I've really enjoyed is the way learning Ruby has made me
a better Perl programmer. Frequently using the iterator and block
idioms so common in Ruby code
(http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/CollectionClosureMethod.html), has
enabled me to more effectively use Perl's grep(), map(), and sort(),
where I used to most commonly use a less consise for loop.
But the best part of Ruby is is the fun - it's fun to program in Ruby!
Any other new Rubyists out there?
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Matt Bohnsack
http://bohnsack.com/
On 8/12/05, Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have been doing some good work with Ruby these days. Anybody else out
> there as impressed as I am? I just bought a book about Rails and
> haven't started it, but the core Ruby language is so much clearer than
> Perl that in a comparison I'd have to call Perl a has-been except for
> CPAN. Thoughts?
>
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