Trying Ruby again
About 6 months ago, I installed Ruby on Rails on one of our web servers at work. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the proper time or resources to get to know the development platform very well, and so the server fell by the wayside. I found out yesterday that it had been deleted from our virtual server repository. So it got me to thinking again on trying to learn how to use Ruby at work.
Only problem is that work won’t see it as an asset because they’ve been through the ‘application built in a language only one tech knows who then goes somewhere else and can’t maintain said application’ thing. We have an inventory system which is in need of updates and its written in C#. No one here knows anything about that language, so the system sits and breaks and we can do nothing to fix it but start from scratch.
I’d like to learn it if only for the joy of knowing another language (plus it may help me get a job someday) and it looks really cool. Especially when used in tandem with AJAX things. That looks like a lot of fun, and it looks like it could take some of my web designs from functional to really useful. Isn’t that what every web developer wants for their sites?