Don't blame Ruby on Rails for Twitter's less than brilliant performance of late, blame it on the framework, and over eager developers in a rush to finish their work. Ruby on Rails is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. To build an application in Rails, you start by defining a collection of objects that model the things your application will do, then you write controllers that juggle your model in ... Read full entry

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails, by Dan Benjamin of Hivelogic. To me the term "Ruby on Rails" so far has just been a... term. I totally suck at programming, but this article makes the prospect of learning Ruby on Rails look somewhat possible :) I hope that this gentle introduction to Rails answers a few questions and perhaps dispels a few of the myths surrounding Rails. And while ... Read full entry