Gluttonous : Rails for Designers

Rails for Designers:

Kevin, It’s great to see that you are from San Diego, as am I. I find rails very interesting compared to my normal mode of writing web-apps which is in Coldfusion. I have been thinking about moving from Coldfusion to rails because of its very quick development environment. Although getting a good understanding of the rails environment still alludes me. I’ve parsed Pragmatic’s “Agile webdev with Rails” but I am still questioning how I should go about designing my clients’ web-apps. Go with Rails and use Backbase (now that it is free) for my apps’ visual presence or Scriptaculous (which seems to work not quite as smoothly as backbase) or should I stick with Coldfusion and ready myself for Flex 2.0 which shouldn’t be too far out now. So many questions and not many opinions. I am a big fan of Coldfusion and its rock-solidness, but maybe it is time to move to true MVC with rail...

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