Top 5 reasons to choose Rails

I've worked on Rails to a certain extent and my top 5 reasons why I would choose rails to design my next app are,

1. Convention over configuration. This enables to set up the application, database configurations, and MVC stuff literally in minutes.

2. Active Record - Built in ORM. Domain object model can be configured easily and can be translated to Database. In J2EE or .Net this would require a lot of XML configurations and corresponding database mappings.

3. Support for REST (Representational state transfer). Rails have an implicit support for REST unlike J2EE and .Net.

4. Test Unit - Embraces test driven development.

5. Every dependency is a gem - Project related dependencies/libraries can be easily downloaded as gem install XXX.

However, the main criticism for Rails being scalability and non-availability of standard tool-set for development. My bet on Rails would be for trivial applications web apps.

Install SQLite3 for Ruby in Windows

1.  I downloaded sqlite3 dll zip from
http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_6_12.zip and unzipped into C:\ruby\bin
and then ran
2.  gem install sqlite3-ruby -v 1.2.3

Rails Sucks

I've just started to learn Ruby on Rails (RoR). Got stuck when downloading rails behind a firewall. I wonder why Rails has poor documentation regarding the download steps.

Finally I manged to download rails by setting the following ENV_VARIABLE in Windows environment.

HTTP_PROXY=http://user:pwd@host:port

Even more disgusting is the fact, that I needed to change my password couple of times, since my credentials had special characters like @, %, !. Obviously, Rails hated this.

Colored????

When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black.......

And you White fella,
When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you White,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,

When you sick, you Green,
And when you die, you Gray.................
And you calling me Colored ???????????

- A poem by an African.

Best of Quotes

Tough times never last but tough people do.

A leader takes people where they want to go.A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go ,but ought to be.
An attempt may be a failure, but there should not be any failure in making an attempt!
When in doubt, tell the truth. -Mark Twain.
The measure of a man, is not determined at moments of happiness, but at times of controversy and challenge.
The taste of success is savorless without defeat.
It's not where you sit, but what you do. -Presi

Losing is victory postponed
"Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it."
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment".
"Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt."
"Courage is what you dare to do in public;
Conscience is what you dare not to do in private"
"The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well." -Baron Pierre De Coubertin.
"The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller.
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
- Napolean Hill
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
" If a man hasn't discovered yet ,something that he would die for, He isn't fit to live. "
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. -The Shawshank Redemption

You don't throw away life just because it's a little banged up- Seabiscuit