For the past year, I have forced myself to work with Python and C#.
Last night I sat down at my computer and typed the following:
gem install rails
After a minute or so, Rails 3 loaded onto my system and I began to remember why I love Ruby so much. After four hours of prototyping, I was able to deploy my code to the real world like so:
git push heroku
I don’t want to go back. Sure, I’ll maintain my old code and use .NET where appropriate, but not on nights or weekends.
To get up to date, I picked up Meet Rails 3 from PeepCode, and grabbed the latest Rails beta book from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.