{"id":363,"date":"2007-09-08T12:16:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T16:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=363"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:23:53","slug":"ruby-ims-tool-interoperability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2007\/09\/ruby-ims-tool-interoperability\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby: IMS Tool Interoperability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I wrote my first Ruby application. It was an IMS Tool Interoperability endpoint. It has REST Web services and stores sessions in a database. It meets the REST profile for IMS Tool Interoperability.
\nMy overwhelming feeling is that Ruby is absolutely amazing – I now know why Steven Githens uses sash. Having a console to test code even before you put it into a controller is simply amazing.
\nOne thing I was amazed by is that I have to stop and think some times – because code is written so quickly and debugged so quickly – you actually have stop and think more often – the typing of the code is not the rate limiting factor – how well you have throught through your problem *is* the rate limiting factor.
\nIn Java there is so much cruft and the speed of the debugging cycle is so plodding – I have gotten to the point in Java that I can do designs whlie waiting for a compile or server restart. In Ruby there is no such slack time – so I find I need to get up and walk around once in a while to let the idease anneal in my mind. After I settle back down and have the ideas worked out – making them work in Ruby is done in a flash.
\nProbably my biggest peeve about Ruby\/Rails is a lack of a book that tells you everything that you can do – all the books I have are example after example – and they are all too simple – because they are solving a small problem they never who you how to do a subtle thing like declare that a column in a database is not null.
\nI need a reference manual. Here are some sites that are helping me not go too crazy:
\nhttp:\/\/www.railsapi.org\/
\nhttp:\/\/zamples.com\/JspExplorer\/content\/rubyUG\/
\nUsing Google with things like this works sometimes
\nruby string class
\nrails activerecord class
\nI use this to find stuff in Java by typing
\njava string class
\nBut I am looking for a definitive 10000 page manual for Ruby and Rails. I am tred of poring throush 20 line examples :)
\nI am also really liking Model-View-Controller – but there does seem to be something eauivalent to Components that I am missing. Where do you do things like performance tune, cache, etc etc. I think the Model is too thin of a layer to do it – and the Controller is not the right place either.
\nI do like the Rails abstraction between View and Controller. I have a lot yet to learn but the fact that Urls are abstracted feels very portlet like and WSRP like.. Hmmm. Me likes.
\nAll in all it is amazing that I need to stop and think because things get coded up so quickly.
\nHere is a picture of the running app in Sakai:
\nIMS Tool Interoperability in Ruby<\/a>
\nI need to move the from my desktop to a server so others can use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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