Taking a Peek at Ruby

I've been hearing more about Ruby recently and thought it was time to take a quick look to see what it's all about. Apparently Ruby is an object oriented programming language that was released a little over 10 years ago. Until about a week ago, I didn't even realize it was a programming language on its own. I'm a little out of touch.

Being a diamond girl myself, a language called Ruby definitely peaked my curiosity. I definitely noticed some syntax similarities between Ruby and other languages that I've learned in the past. That makes things interesting. I'm still amazed at the way Ruby allows you to condense certain code (I'm thinking iterators here) into a single line. Curly braces aren't required and in some cases you don't have to use parentheses either.

I took a chance and installed Ruby on Rails today. I definitely didn't realize what that was either. It's a framework. Haven't not done much hardcore programming in awhile, I missed out on a lot of the framework following. The makers of Rails were kind enough to make Windows installs easy for developing but you really need to host it on a Linux box when you're done.

So the install went fairly well. I had a little trouble with the MySQL install for some reason. I think I missed a setting somewhere along the line because the program recommended to interact with MySQL just didn't want to connect until I reconfigured. I started to play around with the cookbook tutorial, but was quickly distracted by a little application idea I have. Sometimes I'm distracted rather easily. I have way too many ideas floating around my head at the moment and the next problem is actually data modeling and designing. On problem at a time: get back to the cookbook tutorial and finish that so I have some sort of experience basis to get going.

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