Programming languages and tools from the business point of view  

Programming languages and tools are considered only for developers but smart companies have understood that in order to achieve best results they should not only care for business but for developers too. And what kind of better care than the one for programmers happiness and productivity by suppling them with the best tools available? This article intention is to point out in a bit of a story like form how Rails helps. It will go from the ways of developing a web application and points out some of the aspect in business and development which are really useful when a company chooses to use Rails for it’s development tool.

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Not more than two months ago I started programming in Ruby. Ofcourse using the rails framework. It was superb for me to find that just everything about web development is already there in the framework. The directory structure - it’s just so easy and you intuitively find whatever you need, logging - it has that useful feature to tell you the performance of your business logic as well as the performance of rendering the view. Ruby on Rails clearly MVC based. Working with and refactoring of your DB is an ease with the help of migrations. You’ve heard about Web 2.0 - yes, AJAX is well incorporated into the rails, too. I still haven’t found a missing part.

Why a Developer but not a Coder? Well, you should feel the beauty to develop in Rails. For me a CODER is someone who concentrates on code structure and thinks about how to CODE down the business logic for his problem. The Coder is also highly considering the difficulties for accessing his DB. What’s the contrast in case of using Ruby on Rails. Just after a little experience, you don’t code down - you write down whatever you need. Moreover you are not scared to think about adding new functionality related to DB Objects - you just tell rails that you want it. All this ease lets you think on a higher level and lets you concentrate on the real problems that should be solved.

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Usually when I start dealing with something new I want to see what others have done in the same sphere. That’s why I think one list of successful Rails Web Applications will be helpful for new-comers and not only to them. In fact you will see that great applications have been lunched in the recent days.

37 Signals` work

• Basecamp - Project management and collaboration
  

   

• Campfire - Real-time group chat
  

   

• Backpack - Information organizer and calendar
  

   

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Recently, lots of words have been written about Ruby on Rails and lots of programmers had adopted or thought about adopting it. As a result, this young programming language has reached the top 10 of most popular programming languages. On the picture below you can see that ruby is the language with most gain of popularity. This statistics has been done by “TIOBE Software BV”. It represents ratings that are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. Moreover Yahoo!, MSN, and of course Google are used to calculate the ratings.

Well, I think that this index is a good enough confirmation that Ruby is no more a “back-stage player”. Moreover, in my view, if someone has a touch with the comfort and easiness of web developing with the help of Ruby on Rails - he will seriously think about adopting it as a primary web dev tool/lang. I have programming skills and experience with Perl, Java, PHP, however neither of them has given me the comfort of rails. My expectations are that in one or two years ruby will be a first-stop about developing moderate web applications. It won’t shift Java or PHP because they have long and hard roots in the market, however the young and new-comming developers will choose the clarity and easiness of Ruby on Rails.

Many people read articles about Ruby but no one really cares to explain why really Ruby is so great. There are a couple of articles around the web providing a clue but no one really focus on production and actual Ruby application develop and deploy process. So this article will summarize all the information we tried to gather around the web and put it into one simple yet focused and pragmatic explanation of this question without much of any unnecessary details and code overview but pointing/naming the topic you might want to read in details.

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