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Originally Posted by Nimetic
Is it really that good?
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In a word, YES
I'll admit there is a steep-ish learning with Ruby being syntacally quite different to those who grew up with C (and I think it's those that gravitate to PHP, like I did).
Once you grasp the ruby syntax it is really quite nice and the Rails framework on top of that is awesome. BY keeping "DRY", just so much gets done for you, for free!
My gripe is that the main books (the pragmatic one) doesn't have a great example of how to design a site that goes beyond a simple one page/one controller paradigm. I've ploughed through the learning and and it is now working well for me!
Also there are great plugins too - I've been using Markaby to write HTML code using Ruby and it is really cool!