The Modest Rubyist

To get off on the right foot, I’ll be 100% honest, I’m not sure what the long term goal of starting this blog is. Right now I believe it has a couple purposes. First, I really wanted to get my hands on toto. Toto really is all it claims to be by the way. It took 5 minutes to setup and learn how to use. Launching on heroku was quick. See this article on rails inside for easy deployment on heroku, which is how this blog is hosted. My second reason for starting this blog is because my tumblelog is starting to get cluttered with the mixture of ruby and random blog posts.

I have been programming in Ruby for a little over a year now and have, like many others, I really fallen in love. The Ruby community is great, making it an easy language to pick up quickly. I’m hoping this blog may one day give a little back.

Coming from PHP, I fell in love with the ease of RubyGems, never loving PEAR. Ruby has examples of simple to use interfaces all over and as rubyists we really appreciate them. I still use PHP because all of my clients still use PHP powered websites. However, most of my day-to-day coding outside of work is done in Ruby.

I will be posting my own articles on this blog as well as resources I have found useful in my own work. Maybe someone besides me will one day find it useful.