Hi Tony, On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Tony Maserati <ableton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to write about Rails for this magazine article. How > does it look so far? I'm trying to explain it to the average man - NOT > the developer. > > "Rails is a system which drastically simplifies web applications - by > letting one develop using Ruby [1], by having a more reasonable way of > organizing things [2], and by automating a lot more [3]. Rails also > opens the door for failsafe applications by writing tests and then > making sure the application passes these tests [4]" > > [1] Perl, Lisp and Smalltalk. [2] In conjunction with semantic, W3- > verified HTML and CSS, and JavaScript via jQuery. [3] I.e. database > management. [5] Behavior Driven Development via Cucumber. > > Anything I should add, rephrase or take away? Especially [3], is there > anything I could add there?
I'd start by trying to define the things this 'average man' cares about and then talk about those things. I don't see anything above that would have meaning / value for anyone _but_ a developer. You might want to start with something like cost. Best regards, Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
