yeah? i know you do java stuff. have you done any web programming before?
Not too much. Lately I've been doing more back-end stuff. But it is something I've wanted to learn more about.
if you've got 15 minutes, watch this presentation of RoR. let me know what you think
http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mov
That looks pretty cool, and quick for getting a prototype up and running, but I wonder how much work it would be to actually customize everything. Also, how hard is it to port an existing application with its own datamodel, page flow, etc... to their framework?
Seems like it could be an interesting project.
The scaffolding is nice for generating the basic CRUD pages, but it's really just a starting point. It's a little bit of work to really get your pages working how you want, but it's really pretty trivial stuff.
I've been writing some DDL scripts to alter the ezabel schema to fit in with the RoR convention as I go. In the end, I think it makes things cleaner, and it really makes sense.
And as far as page flow is concerned, it's so easy because the framework is MVC is so baked in, you just follow the model. Makes it very easy.
Plus, the language Ruby itself is FUN to write in!
lol. I like how you capitalized "fun".
I'll take a look at it. I really know very very little about web programming. I was pretty good with learning programming languages, I'm just really not motivated to actually learn them, usually. If I get a chance, I'll check it out. How would you split up the work so that no one is working on the same stuff?