Prototyping With Rails #

About a year ago I had to step back into my family business due to a death. During that time I was operating the business while trying to figure out a new owner I was looking at trying to stream line a process that had a pain for many years. It was a fairly simple problem to solve and I had used multiple CRMs geared towards our industry, but none of them had this one feature. So what did I do? I decided prototype an application to see solve my frustration. As a business owner…terrible idea, but as a programmer..typical! Normally, I would reach for my normal dotnet stack, but I wanted to try out the new Rails 8. This has been the inspiration for the recent Rails posts, and now I want to share the project.

My Experience Building A Rails App As A Dotnet Developer #

I use to write a lot of rails applications when I was newer as a developer. Fast forward almost a decade later with professional experience, I thought I would look into rails again. I’ve slightly followed the progression of rails over the years and agree with some points of DDH’s. Main about JavaScript and how it’s become overly complex for web apps. Although, I personally love static type languages. I know shocker - coming from a dotnet developer.