A few weeks ago, I downloaded an eBook on Ruby on Rails and gave the first few chapters a read. It was decently interesting, and it sounded like something I would like to get into. I am not a fan of eBooks, so I decided I would spring for a physical copy.

The book covers Rails development from the beginners level to the fairly advanced. It offers an easy tutorial which one can follow along, and gives a decent amount of information about most of the features they have available.

One of the biggest features that the Rails framework offers is migration. Although it is a fairly small part of Rails, it is a technology which I know is useful to many companies. At Pason, we created our own technology that basically does the same task as migration. It would have been nice to just use the Rails’ migration instead of developing our own.

The biggest issue I am having now, is getting back into the Python-style of coding. Ruby and Python are fairly similar… and very much different from Java and C++ which I am more familiar with. There are also a few speedbumps I am noticing when working on my first Rails project, but I hope to overcome them soon.