I recently discovered Ruby on Rails and thought it was awesome =D I downloaded it and then realized that I had never written anything in ruby. I know it was talked about here but, does anyone know any good Japanese ruby tutorials? I already have a habit of doing to much programming and not enough Japanese, but I guess if I do it this way I can get the best of both worlds =D

Btw, is Ruby anything like Python? Is the syntax similar? I watched some of the ruby on rails screencasts and the syntax had me all confused =(

Do you think Ruby on Rails looks more awesome than any of the Python web frameworks available? I have a great liking for Python, and I've been thinking of trying Django sometime.

bladethecoder Wrote:Do you think Ruby on Rails looks more awesome than any of the Python web frameworks available? I have a great liking for Python, and I've been thinking of trying Django sometime.

Ah, yes I've tried Django. Back then for some reason I just couldn't get into it. mmh.. Though looking back at it, maybe I should give it another chance... I do love python =D

You may find this old thread to your liking: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1528

Ruby's manual is originally written in Japanese.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/documentation/

If you like python then you should probably give Django another try. Django and Rails tend to do more or less the same thing, although Django has the huge advantage of modularity.

I'm a professional Django developer in my day job, however, so there may be a little bias there.

* mafried goes off to get ready for DjangoCon '09

Quote:Btw, is Ruby anything like Python? Is the syntax similar?

Python and Ruby have a similar syntax, both languages have a lot of things in common (but not everything of course). Before trying Rails, you should find a good book about Ruby, it's a simple and powerful scripting language.

Ruby can be written in a way that is almost indistinguishable from Python.
For instance:
Ruby:
for i in 0..30 do
robot.Read()
end

Python:
for i in range(0,30):
robot.Read()

A more rubyist way of doing the same:
30.times do
robot.Read()
end