It seems Google wants to take over the world, Earlier this week Google released its own web browser Chrome. You can Read the previous post for more information. Currently its available for download only in the Windows Platform (Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista). A statement by Google co-founder Sergey Brin has linked Chrome with Google’s upcoming mobile operating system Android. Just in case if you are wondering what is Android, Android is Google’s Open Source Operating System for the mobile phones (just like Microsoft’s Windows Mobile), already the first handset in development by HTC powered by Android is going to roll out in Q4 2008 or early 2009. The handset is named HTC Dream.

In a recent interview with CNET,Brin claimed that “…a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack.”

Both browsers i.e Chrome and Android’s Web Browser are built with the same Webkit rendering engine (Other browsers such as Safari(iPhone), Safari Mobile, and Nokia’s S60 Browser are also powered by this engine) however other features such as the user interface, CSS and JavaScript engines, and support for extensions and plugins will be the ones to look out for.

Google has announced Chrome to be available on both Mac and Linux in the near feature, although the dates not given yet. (You can run Chrome in Linux using Wine though)

Greetings,

Most of you must have heard of “Ruby on Rails (RoR)”. It being touted as the next best thing (apart from php ). Well lemme give you a lowdown of what Ruby on Rails is…

I`ll try to explain the power of RoR in the simplest of words,

If PHP can do something after typing 75 lines of code, RoR can do the same thing in typing mearly 3 lines of code !!!!
Thats as simple is it gets ! But then again, there is a catch to it, RoR is equally complex. So Today, I`ll just give you the basic idea of what Ruby on Rails is, and how to set up a developer environment for RoR, So next time we can directly start creating applications. woohoo !

But Firstly the basics.
If you are aware of the basics then Click Here to jump below, else read on.

“Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto.”

• Ruby is very similar to our native object-oriented programming languages (eg: C++,Java).
• You can define variables using ‘@’ symbol.
• You can define functions, more commonly known as methods using

  def method_name
  ....
  end

“Ruby on Rails is framework developed particularly for web applications. The framework is coded using Ruby. It basically makes our lives easier by generating code automatically on execution of a single piece of code.

• It uses the MVC Architecture. (Model-View-Controller, I`ll be explainin this in the next tutorial, which will be ‘Creating Your First RoR Application’)

I like to tell you that, its not easy deploying a RoR application (Thats right, its an application, not a script or a piece of code, but a combination of lots of directories & files).
Its not anything like the php scripts we upload to the server and run the script by pointing to the right address, there are various modes on how a RoR application is executed (Eg. developer, test, production).

Enough of the technical mumbo-jumbo, lets get down business.

Pre-Requisites :

1. Webserver + MySQL installed
2. Ruby (1.8.6) : We need to install the basic ruby binaries and extensions to execute RoR applications.
   Download ruby186-26.exe

Basically you must have a normal php/mysql developer environment already installed, if not, you can refer to my earlier tutorial i.e
Tutorial : Installing Apache, PHP5, MySQL5, PhpMyAdmin 2.11 in Windows Vista/XP