Yesterday I was chatting on Skype with Ray Slakinski about RoR. Of course I’ve known about Ruby forever — our students at ArsDigita University were building Web apps with it back in 2000 — but I have yet to try my hand it at. In the meantime, it looks like Rails has a podcast! Subscribed.
hmmm interesting considering that according to this article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_rails , Rails framework wasn’t released till about 2004, although ruby itself has been around for a bit longer, but only had a minor popularity in japan(?).
I originally thought that the RoR you were talkign about was the xml format, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resources_of_a_Resource . kinda similar to google sitemaps and other meta data formats.
Heh, sorry if it wasn’t clear, but “it” refers to Ruby-the-language, not Rails-the-framework.
And yes, it’s true, at that time the language was barely known outside of Japan. We heard a lot of complaints about the manuals only being available in Japanese!