Ruby

April 11th, 2010

After a disappointing first of April I decided to look over the fence and see what other exciting areas of software development there are (Ok I am joking). Ruby has been something that I wanted to learn for quite some time, and I finally took the plunge. So now you can expect some posts about that in the near future :)

I am currently working / playing with the following:

  • Ruby
  • Sinatra, because I want to actually learn Ruby and not just Rails
  • Haml
  • Sass
  • Compass
  • jQuery, lots of it
  • CouchDB
  • MongoDB
  • Cucumber
  • RSpec
  • QUnit
  • JsTestDriver
  • RubyMine, still in the evaluation time, but looks promising

I can tell you that there is a lot of new stuff here for me, and the list keeps on growing, so very exciting, very exciting indeed.

Mark Nijhof

  • junior programmer

    What data mapper (orm) will you use? data mapper? sequel? etc?

  • Sebastian

    Hi Mark, it’s always fun and interesting researching other fields of computing. I’m in the research of Smalltak, just starting the course.
    Java has just tired me a bit after so many years. Ruby is great despite RoR is not. Pharo is a nice Smalltalk implementation based on Squeak. You can take a look if you want.
    Cheers and good luck man. See you there in the DDD forum :)

  • Szymon Kulec

    You’re alive!:) What an amazing set of different technologies. It is quite demanding in terms of context switches, isn’t it?

  • http://elegantcode.com/about/mark.nijhof/ Mark Nijhof

    @junior programmer
    Well considering I don’t have a SQL db in the list, I don’t think I’ll need a ORM

    @Sebastian
    Smalltalk is interesting as well, but a.t.m. I need something a bit more practical (for me) :)

    @Szymon Kulec
    I have no problem with the context switching, it a huge amount of fun so it goes easy.

  • Marc

    This is pretty much my to-learn list for the next few weeks/months, so I’m excited to see what you come up with!

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