Working With Rails

Mark Bates has been a Ruby developer for three years now, with a near lifetime of Java and PHP behind that. He was recently the Director of Architecture for Helium.com, a Rails/Mack based citizen journalism website. He’s taught Ruby/Rails training courses in the Boston area. At RailsConf 2008 he chaired a BoF session on Rails Alternatives. He’s authored two recipes for the Advanced Rails Recipes book, and is currently filming a series of screencasts for the Pragmatic Programmers. Mark presented at RubyConf 2008 in Orlando, FL on ‘Building Distributed Applications’. Mark is currently writing a book for Addison-Wesley entitled, ‘Distributed Programming with Ruby’.

In February 2008, Mark, began development of the Mack framework. Mack aims to provided a simple, easy to use, Ruby based web framework that makes developing distributed, portal-like web applications a snap. With features such as distributed routing, objects, and views/layouts, developing multiple applications that link together has never been easier.