Ruby on Rails For Dummies
Chapter One
Welcome to the World
of Ruby on Rails
In This Chapter
* Understanding the need for agile software development
* Discovering Ruby's role in agile development
* Finding out how Rails fits in
Once upon a time, there were three little programmers. The programmers
wrote code for the World Wide Web - code to give users access to a
company's database.
The first programmer was in a hurry to write her code. She wrote simple
code as quickly as she could. The second programmer wasn't quite in such a
hurry. She used the traditional Waterfall methodology - a multistep process
involving analysis, design, coding, testing, and deployment. The third programmer
was careful and industrious. She used a heavyweight persistence
framework such as Enterprise JavaBeans. She built her software to cover
every possible contingency and to accommodate any future need.
As you might expect, this story has a big bad wolf. The wolf might have been
a manager, a client paying for the software's creation, or a c ... read full excerpt from Ruby on Rails For Dummies ebook
