Ruby on Rails == Extremely Short Time to Market

I have been involved with an resource management development project (together with 2 of my other colleagues,we spawned the project collectively) in my company lately. Perhaps the most distinct part is that the development team is not made up of hardcore programmers. While coming from a technical education background (computer science, information systems), the majority [...]

Enterprise 2.0 *Update*

Finally, I have managed to check my first set of files into the CVS repository at rubyforge. It is weird that this didn’t work the first time….but it sure works now!!!!
For all you tech junkies out there, the commands to check out the files as anonymous are the following (just press enter when prompted for [...]

Referential Integrity in Rails *Part 2*

Finally, the onslaught of enforcing referential integrity is over…..I have finally succumbed to the manual way of writing bits and pieces of code to enforce it in Rails. It still hits me how the management of this could have been left out in the ORM (Object Relational Mapping) layer. Much like taking a 300 pounds [...]

Referential Integrity in Rails *Part 1*

I have started using Rails framework recently on a internal software engineering project at my workplace, prototyping an Enterprise 2.0 application that encompasses all the usual social collaborative/networking softwares that you can think of.
For the obvious reasons, it seems it will turn out a lot easier to write the software from scratch (am breaking the [...]

Ruby on Rails *The Holy Grail to Web 2.0 development* (Part II)

In desperate search for an alternative, I came across Ruby on Rail. The first time I heard of Ruby was in 2000 when a University PhD mate of mine told me he used it for statistical purposes. I never figured Ruby could be what it is today back then.
I decided to go for the “leap [...]

Ruby on Rails *The Holy Grail to Web 2.0 development* (Part I)

Title sounds a bit exaggerative, or doesn’t it?

Throughout time as a software engineer I have been searching for an elegant, light-weight language to quickly develop/prototype applications, but I have never had the patience to go through all the configurations that I need to get something simple up and running.

I come from a [...]