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- I want to learn a dynamic language.What better one than Ruby as a starter? The number of online resources for help is just staggering.
- I want to learn techniques from another successful framework. (FubuMVC really opened my eyes to how much better a .net MVC framework should be, so lets widen the scope further)
- I simply want to know what all the fuss is about.
Getting started, I conceded that I would run with the out-of-the-box configuration - I need to learn the Ruby language as well as the framework so I don't want to get bogged down re-configuring it to death before I even get properly up and running.
Out-of-the-box means that Active Record is used for data access. I've never (wittingly) employed the Active Record pattern on any project, but it instantly had me recalling a Chad Myers post (long, but well worth the read). I didn't agree with everything 100% at the time, and I'm still too green with RoR to make up my mind entirely, but it certainly got me thinking. And if I get nothing else from my RoR exploits then at least I will have been thinking carefully and not just blindly following one single framework.