First startup, Ruby on Rails

I got emailed at the end of last quarter (in December) about the chance to join a very early startup. The deal was that I was going to do all the programming, while the person who is hiring me out to help and join is going to provide me with everything I will need to produce this site.

When I originally signed the contract to finish this site, I was thinking of programming it in pure HTML, PHP, Javascript and AJAX. I've done it before, but for smaller projects then this. Then it hit me to try and learn something new, try something new: Ruby on Rails.

Many startups in Silicon Valley use this language to get their site off the ground and produce a really quick site. The language, seemingly at the moment, provides ways to make things easier by working off the MVC model. The model is very simple. Simply a program interacts with my "view" (the html window), and my code to handle input and output from the sight to my database.

I've never worked with Ruby before, but things are going well now. I'll release what I'm writing later when the code actually does something. What I will not release will be the main algorithms behind the scenes running what the startup is about.