I spent some time today with Ruby on Rails - if you're interested, Instant Rails is a great way to get started and can be found here.
It's pretty nice. I've not really done much web development since I was at university. It was hard work getting back into it but Ruby on Rails is a really smart system that really fits nicely with agile methodologies; it looksl like it's great for getting something up and running really quickly and then iterating on it.
Ironically, I'm thinking of using it to mess around with making a sort of Hansoft-lite as an exercise in learning the language, re-learning HTML/CSS etc. and learning whatever the hell Ajax is. It should also serve to help me sort out a few "best practices" for agile development at work.
This probably ranks here: <-------0--> on the Fad-O-Meter. I predict I get about as far as naming the project.
NB/ If you're interested in getting started with it, be careful of the out of date tutorials. It would appear that RoR develops so quickly that most of the main tutorials (and books I guess...) are out of date. A fellow Blogger.com chap has the best one I've found.
NNB/ Also this is useful info if you're dumb like me (and the guy who made the original post)
