Ruby on Rails: The importance of being 1.0
Published: 09 Feb 2006 15:05 GMT
David Heinemeier Hansson is the Danish creator of Ruby on Rails, a Ruby-based, open-source development framework that has seen rapid adoption since it was first released in 2004. Rails takes a different approach to software development, what Hansson calls "opinionated software" — sacrificing some flexibility in favour of simplicity.
The result is intended to be much greater productivity and a better developer experience, and judging by the rapid adoption of Rails, many seem to be finding that it works. Even large organisations are bringing Rails into play, with the BBC using it to Web-enable its database of decades of television and radio programmes. The framework has also attracted its share of criticism for limitations such as its lack of support for some common database features. Rails 1.0 was released in mid-December.
David recently relocated from Copenhagen to Chicago, where he is partner at 37signals, developer of the Basecamp project-management system and other Web applications.
You can read the full interview with David Heinemeier Hansson on Builder UK, ZDNet UK's site for developers.
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