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by Tobias Luetke.
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Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money.
Rails 0.11 was just released. And what kind of crazy release it is!
With the 0.11 release rails has committed itself to the ajax using Sam Stephenson’s fantastic prototype library which he custom build for rails.
You can watch himself use it, applying it by way of the helpers rails gives provides for you with, to his upcoming application Elements which he is developing alongside Marcel Molina Jr.
This is a significant commitment. Not only is rails the only fullstack framework which assists in all parts of modern web page development from data to view, it also now spans the server and the client side.
Rails applications have been better than those developed with other frameworks by the additional polish you could afford to apply with the time rails saved you during development. Now rails applications will be significantly better than those you can create with other frameworks because of the new and easy to use JS tech it offers.
This is completely new territory for a web application framework.
The web is going to be a very different place than it is now a year from now and rails leads the way google proposed.
Other enhancements are:
Super easy non vhost installation. Just symlink to the public directory from anywhere on your apache server!
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