On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:45:46PM +0900, Eric Hegwer wrote:
> I though it be cool to hear what your first experience with Ruby was.
> Was it a job, or just a fun (cough, cough)  side project that you
> decided to take on?

Back in 2002/3 I was working on WebSphere based projects and I since I had been
playing around Ruby for a while on the side, I thought it was skunkworks time.

I wrote a Java code generator that took meta data in a YAML file and some JSP
layouts to generate final JSP's.  In the same projects I used ruby to
interrogate the DB2 meta table information (via the commandline tools) to
generate Java DAO classes and all the SQL used to do crud operations on those
tables.

I think less than a year after that 'Code Generation in Action' by Jack
Herrington came out.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy / hinegardner.org