Rails post

With this post, wanted to share some more info and resources on RoR.

1. Peter Marklund has shared the slides of his 5 day introductory course on Ruby on Rails. The slides are quite exhaustive and lengthy (341 slides) and cover everything from MVC, ActiveRecord, Migrations, routing and deployment options.
2. Heroku is a new venture that addresses the deployment aspect of RoR. People who are new to rails and the web as well as web hosting in general face an uphill task when they are done with the other painful task of actually developing a web app. Heroku attempts to solve this with a complete Rails environment that runs in the web browser. Developer can create a new rails app, import his code and the his webapp is online instantly. He can share the url and invite feedback from close group. There are some screencasts that explain more about this service. As of now, Heroku is still in limited beta but you can request for an invitation.
3. Jonathan from Parkerhill Technology group has published a paper where he compares the current two hot web frameworks - Rails and Django. He concludes that Rails has a comparitively wider community support and buzz whereas django is more technically appealing. Though he accepts in the paper that he has not written any real life web apps with either of the frameworks.