Ruby on Rails: Success Story

Recently I wanted to create some enterprise-quality website, with sign up, logins, databases, nice AJAX forms etc. And I decided to write it using the enterprise-quality framework: Ruby on Rails. Here is the story of my success.

First, the installation. In Ubuntu it's simple as 1-2-3: just open the terminal and type the following commands:

root@desktop# apt-get install ruby
<... skip 10 minutes ...>
root@desktop# gem install rails
<... skip 1 day ...>

(Seriously, I left my computer working and went to date with my girlfriend. On the next day, when I came home, the computer was still working!)

Anyway, after the installation I followed the RoR's User Guide and typed:

root@desktop# rails new meta-employers
<... skip 15 minutes and 10 pages of logs ...>
root@desktop# cd meta-employers
root@desktop# bin/rails server
/root/meta-employers/bin/spring:11:in `<top (required)>': undefined method `path_separator' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)
    from bin/rails:3:in `load'
    from bin/rails:3:in `<main>'
root@desktop# fuck you
No command 'fuck' found, did you mean:
 Command 'suck' from package 'suck' (universe)
 Command 'fsck' from package 'util-linux' (main)
fuck: command not found
root@desktop# rm -r *
root@desktop# gem uninstall rails
Successfully uninstalled rails-4.2.5.2
root@desktop# apt-get remove ruby && apt-get install php5
<... skip 10 minutes and some confirmations ...>

After that I opened my favorite IDE, JetBrains PhpStorm (yes, you may write applications for RoR using absolutely any IDE you like) and wrote my Employer Smart Lookup in ~1 day. Overall, the full-stack, enterprise quality, robust, scalable and thoroughly tested application written in Ruby on Rails required just 2 working days! I think this is a true success, and it couldn't be possible without efforts of the RoR team.

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