I use ruby on an near daily basis to satisfy my general scripting needs and to test web applications using WATIR. And I’ve written a few toy projects and a reporting application using Ruby on Rails. But, as Sermoa (another 43Things user who’s entry I noticed) said, “Using is the best way of learning”.
So, to further sharpen my Rails skills, to use some Rails features I haven’t encountered and to modernize my Rails skills (I last really used Rails in the 0.11 release), I’ve decided to complete a few projects, each to be more substantial than the last (however, none should be as substantive as this extremely long, run-on sentence; indeed, if I’ve learned anything from my flirtations with and studying of agile programming, it’s that “Do the simplest thing that actually works” is an amazingly insightful, and useful, piece of advice - so it would behoove me to follow it, even in the realm of writing, and stop writing this sentence no… [Incidentally, that last sentence reminded me of Douglas Hofstadter’s (who is the famous author of that famous work, Godel, Escher, Bach, which, by the way, I highly - yea, wholeheartedly—recommend) little gem of a book Metamagical Themas, in which he displays an adorable, though perhaps approaching unhealthy, obsession with self-reference in general, and self-referential sentences in particular).
So, look out Ruby on Rails.
