Ruby On Rails Get Together

September 5, 2007 • Filed in: Uncategorized

The Philippine Ruby Users Group are having a party:

Hello, Ruby- and Rails-istas. How about a get-together? Food and drinks on us!

When: Tue 11 Sep 2007, 6pm onwards
Where: Customs Bar and Grill (inside Autocamp, Ortigas Ave., Pasig)

Let’s just unwind and eat and drink for free and be merry. Maybe take this opportunity to get to know the community and plan the next PhRUG event. And then eat and drink some more.

Please let me know if you’re interested so we can determine if we’ll need a bigger place. Hope to see you guys next week.

Ruby on Rails became popular a web programming language(and framework) because it was very easy to create web applications using it. Other web programming languages like PHP and Python have now adopted frameworks similar to Rails (they call it CakePhp and Django) to emulate how easy it was.

The language uses the MVC approach - model, views, and controller. The concept is like this… You have a database model (say a collection of Student and their class records) . You create the model for the database and establish the relationships (for example there are MANY grades to one student, Many Subjects to one student). Then you need a View (this is the actual visual graphic element) - the web page design and how everything looks like. Then you have a controller which ties the Model and the View together. You input data on a form, for instance, and the controller updates the database model.

This separation allows a web designer to focus on the design of the web site itself while the programmer can work on the database and controllers. Ruby on Rails has been successfully implemented by 37 signals (37signals.com) for most of their web apps. We used to have Basecamp (a RoR application) where I worked. It was pretty fast and easy to work with.

If you find Ruby on Rails interesting, you should join their egroup.

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Comments

By Eugene on September 5th, 2007 at 6:08 pm

Interesting. I’m just starting out with learning Ruby.

By zoul1380 on September 6th, 2007 at 7:29 am

i’ve tried learning ruby on rails a few months back but i stop kasi nagkaroon na ako ng work and it requires me to focus on another language..but it would be great if there’s a group na nag focus sa RoR para mas madaling matuto…

By Miguel on September 6th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

Thanks for posting!

You didn’t mention the egroup though.

It’s ruby-phil@googlegroups.com

By zoul1380 on September 6th, 2007 at 12:42 pm

ayun ang group

By Miguel on September 6th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

Just join and ask questions!

By zoul1380 on September 6th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

@miguel Sure thanks.. join ako later pag uwi ko ng house naka block dito sa office eh..

By jozzua on September 7th, 2007 at 5:44 am

Ow thanks migs. Forgot to post the link to the eGroup.