On Saturday I spent the whole morning reading through Ruby on Rails API and a number of other resources which have made quite a difference in my understanding. The API was the biggest thing, though. So much of what I had questioned before now makes sense. The main thing for me, I think, was that none the tutorials I’d read mentioned much beyond scaffolding, so I was completely unaware of layouts/partials, helpers, integration tests and fixtures, and so on. It’s so cool! Coming from ASP.NET, which is what I’ve been coding at work for the last year and a half, Ruby on Rails is a breath of fresh air. It’s beautiful. Perfect? No, but it’s more perfect than ASP.NET, at least in my eyes. And integration tests look pretty darn amazing. I’ve never done unit testing before, but I do believe I’m about to be converted to test-driven development. We’ll see how hard it is to get into that kind of mindset…
[tags]Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, programming[/tags]
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