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This month Dr. Dobbs features an article on Ruby on Rails by columnist Micheal Swaine in which the main strengths of Ruby and Rails are highlighted once again. It's a pretty good article though.
Swain has interviewed Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson and explains the hype surrounding RoR to the Dr. Dobbs community.
At the centre of the hype, he explains, is the simple facts that RoR was right on time and that the Rails team has worked really hard on marketing their product to developers.
Personally I couldn't agree more.
When Rails emerged it had been clear to me for a while that the world needed a fresh perspective on web application development. At the time I was developing a web application in Lotus Notes for my employer and I had good oppertunity to think long and hard about where I should go next.
Rails sort of popped up from the underground of the web development business in my (and DHH's) native Denmark (a country that has also fostered the creators of C++, Turbo Pascal and the blog tool Typo3).
It was really amazing to see how the rumour about Rails capabilities spread across the the local blogosphere. Suddenly a good number of the blogs I read were all ablaze with posts about how to do this and that in Rails.
It all seems as many years ago, although it was only about December 2004.
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