[Rails] Re: What's can I use RoR for

2011-11-22 Thread Fily Salas
Thank you all very much for the good information. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

[Rails] What's can I use RoR for

2011-11-22 Thread Fily Salas
Hi, I have been practicing Ruby and I thing I now know at least the basic syntax of the language and I would like to start practicing more and since I usually create websites as a hobby I was wondering if I could use ROR to practice my Ruby skills. I know what RoR is (I think), it’s a Ruby frame

[Rails] Re: Re: Understanding Ruby on Rails

2011-03-17 Thread Fily Salas
> Reason #1: http://pjkh.com/articles/2009/11/13/ruby-in-a-nutshell > Reason #2: http://pastefree.pjkh.com/pastes/150 > > Neither reason above is very serious, but there's always some truth in > humor right? :-) > > -philip I like the first one, thanks a lot for your help! -- Posted via http://

[Rails] Re: Understanding Ruby on Rails

2011-03-17 Thread Fily Salas
Thank you all very much! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ru

[Rails] Re: Understanding Ruby on Rails

2011-03-17 Thread Fily Salas
Thank you for your comments! Well, it looks like I miss-understood when I read that Ruby was designed to be a general programming language, also I thought it was since they often compare it to Java, C++, and mainly Python. Any way I will give it a try, the language has a very clear syntax that

[Rails] Re: Understanding Ruby on Rails

2011-03-17 Thread Fily Salas
Thank you all very much for your help! Is anybody here that uses Ruby mainly for desktop apps that could share his/her experiences? Sorry if I deviated from a RoR thread to a Ruby debate -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[Rails] Re: Understanding Ruby on Rails

2011-03-17 Thread Fily Salas
Paul Hollyer wrote in post #987913: > > http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby > http://pragprog.com/titles/rails4/agile-web-development-with-rails > > Tutorials > http://railscasts.com/ > > Best of luck > > Paul Thank you for the links > no, ruby is not good for desktop apps, since is

[Rails] Re: Understanding Ruby on Rails

2011-03-17 Thread Fily Salas
Thank you both for the good info! It looks like I'm in the right track, so I will continue learning Ruby and later on I will jump into Rails. The other reason I want to have a good understanding about Ruby is to have the ability to create desktop apps, and as you mentioned it the language just

[Rails] Understanding Ruby on Rails

2011-03-16 Thread Fily Salas
Hi, I'm currently trying to learn Ruby without even trying to look at RoR just yet thinking that I should first have a solid fundamentals on Ruby I hope on the right path, the thing is that I was also learning PHP and MySQL and I was wondering that if I learn RoR after learning Ruby I might not ne