sethbc’s (infrequent) blog…

I’ve been playing with Ruby on Rails a lot recently, and have managed to set up a couple of test sites on my laptop. I’ve got to say, it’s definitely a pretty solid web framework, and it certainly makes development (both standard and AJAX) fairly easy.

One of the coolest rails apps I’ve been playing with is Typo. Now over the last 8 years I’ve used numerous different blog systems/CMS. I think I started out with nuke/postnuke, bounced around between drupal/wordpress and about a million others, so I see no reason why I shouldn’t try out typo:-). I think the interface in typo is just ‘better’ than the interface to wordpress. While drupal is an amazing system, it just has too much power under the hood for merely hosting a blog (and it isn’t tailored enough to blogging).

The other rails app I’ve been playing with is Instiki. Instiki is yet another wiki software, and while it does appear to be both quick and easy to use, I don’t think they can hold a candle to mediawiki.

Rails has been maturing extremely rapidly, and these web apps are extremely young. In the next couple months, things are going to get very interesting. Rails seems to make the design and implementation of a Web 2.0 site pretty easy, and I don’t see rails slowing down any time soon.