I have been working on an application using Ruby on Rails recently – it is a very cool language and lots of fun to learn. As per my usual approach I have purchased a few books (see list on right) and started coding/test/playing.

The reason I chose Rails for the application I am building is that it is really a prototype for a production application. While it is certainly fast to create applications in Rails, I probably could have put something together faster in ASP.NET (because I am already familiar with that language/platform). The compelling thing about Rails is that it is a Model/View/Controller (MVC) framework based on a VERY object oriented language (Ruby). This means that when I am done hacking out my prototype it won’t be spaghetti code and another developer can use it as the basis for the production application.

More on what the application is/does once we have something worth showing…