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Hi Josh, I came to hear of Ruby also from doing web stuff. I never did 
coldfusion but Php stuff.
I'm interested in knowing the same things as you have asked.

I guess you should read Agile web development with rails. It's by the 
pragmatic programmers.

-gaston

On 8/18/05, Josh Charles <josh.charles / gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I came to this mailing list in search of a community. :)
> 
> Hey, I just joined the list today, but I'm going to try to help you here.
> 
> > I am primarily a web developer, so obviously Rails interests me. 
> However,
> > since my background is in ColdFusion and I still have room to develop 
> there,
> > I'm not sure if I want to start playing with Rails as my first steps in
> > Ruby. So, I'm wondering what kind of ideas and suggestions you guys 
> have.
> 
> I learned rails by implementing a TODO list interface with all the
> bells and whistles (AJAX, Javascript Effects, etc.) Perhaps something
> like this would interest you
> 
> > But speaking of Rails, how easy is it to find some Rails-supported 
> hosting
> > out there?
> 
> I found it to be pretty easy myself. I use OCS Hosting
> (http://www.ocssolutions.com/ruby-on-rails.php) and they are OK. I
> don't think I'm going to want to keep my site up there once it goes
> into production, as I'm extremely concerned about performance.
> 
> There are several other hosters out there that will accomodate you.
> Just good for "Ruby on Rails Hosting"
> 
> 


-- 
-gaston

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