I’m learning Ruby on Rails: Day 1 part 2 of 2

Well I just finished some basic RoR routing and MVC work. I haven’t had too much time to play with ActiveRecord or anything that fun, because I’m coming down with a bit of a cold.

I will say, however, that I’m already starting to see the benefits in automated tools like Capistrano. When you code rails, your project needs to be recompiled every time you make an update. You can trigger this through Capistrano or through a simple touch command in rails’ temp folder. This is really annoying, but going the extra mile with a deployment tool lets you do really fun stuff like deploy from your code repo (svn, git, etc).