after 2+ years away from RoR, how have things moved on?
First impressions, seems to be solid. I’m hoping Rails has not started to drown in it own cruft yet (was sad to watch that happening with java).
The “do it this way because it is the right way” vibe still seems strong.
Looks like heroku + sqlite + git + gitHub is the ‘right’ way to go.
Documentation seems great. In particular, railstutorial is great as a refresher. I prefer its example micro-blogging app to the ones I remember from books a while ago.
Ah, first hiccup working from the tutorial:
$ sudo gem install rspec -v 1.3.0
seems to work, but produces
“Could not find main page README.rdoc”
and
$ script/generate rspec
produces
“Couldn’t find ‘rspec’ generator”.
The advice via google mentions
$ sudo gem install rspec-rails
and
$ script/generate rspec
and this seems to have worked.
Gem (or rspec) not sorting out dependencies in the dev env?
Ah well, moving on.
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