Comments for Delphi to Rails

Comment on :path => TJourney.Create.Steps(1) by Tim

Tim — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:40:38 +0000

Hi Kim,

Thanks for your comment! I wish I’d the time to keep this site more up to date. Good luck with your experiments with Rails. V3 is pretty amazing.

Comment on :path => TJourney.Create.Steps(1) by Kim Freeborn

Kim Freeborn — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:27:01 +0000

Being a Delphi programmer for years, I deeply appreciate your predicament and perspective. I have tried numerous approaches to web development and have had little success with Delphi Tools or PHP and Pearl. I have just started to look at Ruby. It reminds me of the magic I found when I first started programming in Delphi.

Comment on Blocks are hot. by Tim

Tim — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:33:22 +0000

Hi Sam!

Learning it isn’t just easy, but it’s ridiculously fun. I strongly encourage you to give it a go. Ruby, as a language, is fun to write in, and a lot of things that you struggle to get working in Delphi work out of the box in Rails. As far as hardware requirements, development has a very low barrier to entry, whatever computer you’re already using will be fine. For deployment, well, that’s going to depend a lot on the app and how much traffic it gets. There are a lot of great hosts for Rails apps, including the remarkable Heroku and the cheap-and-easy DreamHost, which will get you started. You can always move to something dedicated later on.

Comment on Blocks are hot. by Sam

Sam — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:22:48 +0000

Hi..
By coincindence, looking for some rails info i was reading your posts in your blog.
I’m a software developer, currently developing in Delphi (old versions 6) didn’t have the courage to move to the newer versions: if it works don’t fix it.. kinda of
I also did some developments using PHP via D4PHP (i like it but the result wasn’t what i expected).

ANyway, i will like to know your opinion about rails, how fast could an Delphi all time developer learn it, is it worth it?, hardware requirements, etc.

Thx a lot.

sam.

Comment on Linkday 1 by Tim

Tim — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:43:13 +0000

I’ve not, and to be honest, I don’t have any interest in writing or reviewing non-Ruby tools on this blog. The idea of compiling Pascal or Basic into JavaScript is an interesting one, and something Rails does already with its ERB templates (which let you write Ruby code and it generates JavaScript for you).

Comment on TDataSet is fine, but ORM is better. by Tim

Tim — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:40:43 +0000

You can find them in the documentation for the find method at http://api.rubyonrails.com.

Comment on Linkday 1 by Edwin | MindVisualizer - Handy & Powerful mind mapping software

Edwin | MindVisualizer - Handy & Powerful mind mapping software — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:38:16 +0000

Hi Tim,
I seem to have asked the following but somehow I couldn’t find it anymore today, trying again now:

Do you know morfik? If not, I think it worths some research, its concept is very similar to Delphi and its language is pascal, and you can choose to compile the projects with Delphi for windows or FPC for Linux, if yes, what do you think of it compared with ruby on rails? Thanks.

Comment on TDataSet is fine, but ORM is better. by Edwin | MindVisualizer - Handy & Powerful mind mapping software

Edwin | MindVisualizer - Handy & Powerful mind mapping software — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:29:06 +0000

Thank you for your explanation, Tim, is ‘first’ and ‘all’ that follow the colons variables, constants or methods defined somewhere?

Comment on Linkday 1 by Edwin | MindVisualizer - Handy & Powerful mind mapping software

Edwin | MindVisualizer - Handy & Powerful mind mapping software — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:58:03 +0000

Hi Tim,

Never mind, maybe I did not put it clear, so far all yours posts are seem just what I am interested in.

Comment on Linkday 1 by Tim

Tim — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:26:09 +0000

Hi Edwin,

I won’t be doing step-by-step tutorials. I’m more interested in providing information about the things I had trouble with while learning Ruby and Rails. Step-by-step is nice when you have a specific problem to solve, but background and comparisons are better when you’re trying to learn a more generic “how does this work?”