{"id":8,"date":"2007-07-13T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T04:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2007-07-13T14:20:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T04:20:18","slug":"ruby-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/ruby-enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d heard about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ruby<\/a><\/strong> when the whole <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubyonrails.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ruby on Rails<\/a><\/strong> hype wave hit a few years ago. For whatever reason I didn&#8217;t give it a proper look until recently. Wow. I&#8217;m a changed person. For a long time I&#8217;d considered coding to be not my thing; too tedious and boring. I&#8217;m an pragmatic engineer type. I like to just get things done.<\/p>\n<p>Starting to read the books on Ruby, it feels like the language was written for people like me.  For the first time I actually enjoy writing code and learning how to do things in better ways.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s Ruby on Rails, a web framework written in Ruby. I cant believe how easy it is to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Shakabuku!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Debi<\/strong>: You know what you need?<br \/>\n<strong>Marty<\/strong>: What?<br \/>\n<strong>Debi<\/strong>: Shakabuku.<br \/>\n<strong>Marty<\/strong>: You wanna tell me what that means?<br \/>\n<strong>Debi<\/strong>: It&#8217;s a swift, spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever.<br \/>\n<strong>Marty<\/strong>: Oh, that&#8217;d be good. I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d heard about Ruby when the whole Ruby on Rails hype wave hit a few years ago. For whatever reason I didn&#8217;t give it a proper look until recently. Wow. I&#8217;m a changed person. For a long time I&#8217;d considered coding to be not my thing; too tedious and boring. I&#8217;m an pragmatic engineer type. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wonkothesane.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}