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by Tobias Luetke.
Original Post: ONLamp.com
Feed Title: too-biased
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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.
Its an amazing time to be involved with the rails project.
No day goes by without my RSS reader filling up my rails smart folder with posts about this amazing framework. While the blogsphere has actually started to settle down a bit now where its common knowledge just exactly how good rails is the more traditional media is picking it up.
Today onlamp published an article which walks you through the creation of a simple cookbook. They also recommend some very nifty tools for windows along the way.
My favorite quote from the article however comes from the introduction to ruby. I have never seen it put quite so nicely:
Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language with a super clean syntax that makes programming elegant and fun. Ruby successfully combines Smalltalk’s conceptual elegance, Python’s ease of use and learning, and Perl’s pragmatism.
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