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I don’t usually like templating languages. Ones I’ve known before (like TT) are intended to keep both developers and designers happy, and tend to do neither: developers miss having a full language, and designers want to know why everything can’t just be html. Haml is different; it doesn’t pretend to be html (but is simple enough any html-er can read it), and it gives you access to the whole of Ruby (but encourages you to move code blocks into helpers). It’s just nice and elegant. But it’s also very fussy about layout.
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After playing a bit with Ruby the language I decided to get a crash-start in Rails and turned up for the Ruby-on-Rails class run by Skillsmatter. We got
Jamie van Dyke from Engine Yard as our instructor. One of the good things about courses that is hard to pick up from books is getting a feel for the culture round a language - in this case it was soon obvious that Ruby culture is pretty heavily blog-based. And since Jamie also told us, ‘if you want to do Ruby, get a blog’, here’s mine.

Which isn’t to say that I won’t manage to squeeze a bit of openstreetmap and other topics in here from time to time