Debating web development toolsets

R.T. spamstinksmmmkay-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 8 21:17:47 UTC 2008


Christopher, Dave: Adding composite primary keys to ActiveRecord in
Rails is trivial, "gem install composite_primary_keys".
http://compositekeys.rubyforge.org/

Kareem: You may have a happier experience if you look at Ruby, the
_language_, prior to Rails, the _framework_. Much like you would look
at PHP prior to CakePHP, Perl prior to Catalyst, or Python prior to
Django.
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/
http://qa.poignantguide.net/

Then you'll be equipped to choose from any number of Ruby-based frameworks:
http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/
http://merbivore.com/
http://sinatra.rubyforge.org/

You can get help on irc.freenode.net in #ruby-lang, #rubyonrails,
#trug, and there's also 1:1 mentoring:
http://rubymentor.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl

As for your PDF exporting needs, Ruby's PDF::Writer was created by a
Torontonian Rubyist, Austin Ziegler.
http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/index.html
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