Archive for November, 2006

The Rails Way

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

With all the attention Rails has received in the last year, there has been an enormous influx of people wanting to learn how to write web applications with it. Rails itself attempts to shepherd programmers along well-trod paths, to help them build well-designed applications “by default”. Alas, Rails’ conventions are not always enough.

This blog is our attempt to back up Rails’ opinions on what things should be done, with our own opinions on how things should be done.

The site will have updates by Jamis Buck and Michael Koziarski (if you’ve done any Rails work at all, you know who these gents are). I think this type of site is important because it allows for a distillation of the process in building great rails sites. Having writers authoritative on the subject matter doesn’t hurt either. I’ve already subscribed to the feed…