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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Category: Ruby Development Author: JJ 0 Comments

I’ve considered spending some time coding in Ruby to get a sense of what is so interesting about that language. I’m not ready to start this exercise yet, but I did spend some time looking at Ruby code frameworks. Of course there is Ruby on Rails, but I figured there would be some other frameworks out there and that reading about them would provide some meaningful contrast and tell me what Rails is and what it is not. I decided to list some of the apparently more popular ones for my future reference and yours. Ramaze peaked my interest the most. The Nitro site was missing when I tried it. I included the link anyway in hopes it will be fixed soon.

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