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zero to Web application in 10 minutes

Well, after spending days trying to get Ruby on Rails installed and working on my machine I was beginning to be a little bit suspicious about all these claims about how it was such a wonderful language, easy-to-use, and so on. Going through the Ruby stuff itself didn't convince me either. Finally, I found How to make a todo list program with Rails 0.9 and after doing a clean install based on its directions, was astounded that I was able to install, configure, and create an entire to-do list application in all of 10 minutes. Seriously. I still can't believe it. It is a little convoluted, don't get me wrong. But man is it fast. (I have no idea what the production speed a running the application would be, but I mean it was very fast to create it.)

Now if I could just get my web host to support Rails...

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