10x Faster development with Ruby on Rails

A number of people are reporting 10x faster development with Ruby on Rails, but my experience goes further than faster application turnaround time.

Carl and I have certainly seen a big reduction in the time between having an idea and seeing it implemented, we discuss an idea for Gimpu and we can put the functionality in place in an hour or two. But it doesn’t stop there. Because we get the functionality in place so quickly we can spend more time getting the user interface right, we have more time to experiment and that means the end user of the site will get something that looks and feels more polished.

Using Rails feels like the perl motto that goes something like

Making the simple things easy and the hard things possible.

Rails really does take the day-to-day drudgery out of creating web-apps and lets us concentrate on the interesting bits.

Where is gimpu?

Where is Gimpu? Wasn’t it meant to be finished by now?

Well, yes, it is nearly finished, Carl re-wrote a large part of it so we have to move a lot of code across to a new backend. And we have lives outside of writing Ruby code.

It should be about a week.