SoCal CTO
JUNE 13, 2011
We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. Misconception #1 - "You can build things 10x faster in Ruby."
Austin Startup
APRIL 8, 2018
For handling requests, move the business logic out of controllers and into plain old Ruby objects like Service objects (app/services) or models (app/models) that don’t inherit from ActiveRecord, and call that in your controller to handle the business logic. Rule of thumb: your controller actions should be no more than 5–7 lines of code.
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The Startup Magazine
JUNE 3, 2019
This is one of the many challenges that you’ll have to take head-on as the founder of a tech startup. So, let’s make things a bit easier by running through a primer on choosing the right programming language for your tech startup. Most startup founders agree that it’s best to choose people first and language second.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
If you want to build a website that, say, keeps track of your favorite restaurants, you might think, “Ruby along with Rails are great choices here, so let’s do that.” NVV: Startups are all about tradeoffs, and engineering is a great example. But the software itself should be well-crafted.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 19, 2013
You have a great idea for an app or a startup but you have have absolutely no programming skills. Part of Y Combinator ’s Summer 2013 batch of startups, The online resource for web development to date has taught more than 9,000 people Ruby on Rails, one of the most widely-used web programming technologies today.
SoCal CTO
MAY 22, 2012
I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events. Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 10, 2012
Learning to code is becoming the key skill for anyone who wants to launch a tech startup, or even just get a job working at a hot tech company. If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? It does not take an IQ of 170 to learn Ruby On Rails.
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