Until last week, I kind of thought moving to Ruby on Rails was stupid for long time developers in another language (like me) - what was the point of learning a totally new language?

Well until Friday night, when I was reading some article about Rails (I forget what it was), I suddenly got a burst of “lets have a look!”. I typed rubyonrails.com into my browser, and continued to look at the screencasts and the rest of the site/wiki for a while, until deciding I would in fact try it - I had nothing to loose! I downloaded it and got RadRails (an IDE for rails), then started doing the really basic stuff, like creating projects, doing some Hello Worlds’ - all looked great, and the simple MVC file structure was easy to understand after using CakePHP! By this time it was already 4am, and while I was very much excited to carry on, I needed rest.

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