After working with Ruby on Rails for about a month now, I feel like I’m finally over the hump. I really love working with RoR but I had a difficult time getting into the mindset of working within a framework. Besides taking a few years off from coding, most of my experience had been working with PHP and before that ASP. The problem I had was that I knew exactly what I wanted to do and how to do it with PHP but with RoR, usually there was a simpler way but I wasn’t always sure what that was or how to find (RoR 2.0 examples can still be hard to find).
Now, I’m about a month or so from launching my new web app in beta but the progress I’ve made with RoR still amazes me. The same could probably be said for using a PHP framework or any framework but I’ve really enjoyed learning a new programming language and have found RoR to fit all of my needs.
For those that are interested in finding out what I’ve been building over the past month, feel free to stop by www.marketingformavens.com. It’s currently a placeholder for when the beat goes live but as more progress is made on this project, additional details will be made available. You can also follow the progress on Twitter.
I’m a couple of weeks into Ruby on Rails myself with a new web app also in preparation and i’m also coming from years of php programming. reading your post is good for my moral. Thanks
Alexis
Glad I could help. I know how frustrating it can be especially when you know you can do something in PHP in 5 minutes but because you’re unfamiliar with RoR it takes much longer. In the end, it will pay off.