Hear me… RoR? 1 comment

I know I haven’t been updating enough as of late, but I can explain this in one sentence.

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft.

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And I work/live at night.

Alright, so two sentences. Anyway, I’m getting a bit WoWed out… guess that’s bound to happen when you grind a toon from 1-70 in 3 months… alot of sleep dep happening there. So today, instead of playing, I was reading up on Ruby on Rails. First I hit up on the RoR tutorial about building a simple recipie book. I have to admit, that really blew my mind as far as how easy it is to build basic CRUD for a database web app. The #2 thing that always seems to creep into my mind, however, is “What’s the processing overhead?” Lord knows I’m very far from being some kind of expert at optimal processing code, but I still think about it. So then I happen upon a few web blogs while looking for “wordpress rails”, thinking I would find a Ruby on Rails implementation of Wordpress, and it confirmed my suspicions that there’s always a catch when something is real easy.

I have to admit, I did have my suspicions when I got to the part in the recipe RoR tutorial where it demoed how Rails will automatically discover changes to the database and account for them… unless there’s some kind of caching, and right now I don’t know, that will be a very slow system… dynamically making code to make a website work sounds good but it’s alot of overhead, at least that’s what it seems to me.

I’ll have to look into it further. I’m impressed by the concept, as it’s the first time I’m looking into RoR, and I’m pretty sure I can benefit from learning it, but I think for the time being I better hone my PHP/.NET/JAVA skills if I want a job when I get out of… my current job.

-TJ