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Tag Archives: Ruby on Rails

Twitter moving away from Ruby on Rails

This may be a rumor but Techcrunch is reporting that Twitter is abandoning Ruby on Rails due to scalability issues. I have read a few articles a while back about people having problems with Ruby on Rails. That is why … Continue reading

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jQuery on Ruby on Rails

I found this: jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for javascript functionality using the lighter jQuery library. jRails provides drop-in functionality for these existing … Continue reading

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Ruby on Rails instead of Java + Google Web Toolkit

An article where a couple of guys decided to use Ruby on Rails instead of Java and Google Web Toolkit. I would encourage everyone who is learning RoR to read the entire article. Don’t skip the last part of the … Continue reading

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Differences and Similarities between PHP and Ruby on Rails

A very interesting post since I have been keeping an eye on RoR for sometime now. Some snippets below… There are rather significant syntactical differences between PHP and Ruby. For example PHP requires semicolons at the end of lines and … Continue reading

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