Maybe you've heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you'd like to give it a try, but you don't know anything about Ruby or Rails. This article steps through the development of a web application using Rails.
Curt demostrated Rails development at an OCI Java lunch last year. He did build an online forum application within an hour. I am very much in favor of cutting the XML configuration horror out of web development. Yet I kept asking myself, and others at OCI, "Where's the catch?"