Who lays all these tracks?

I've been programming commercially for over 7 years and have been specializing in web applications for about the last 5 of those 7. For the larger projects I've churned out copious amounts of ASP.NET and for a several smaller apps I've used PHP and a bit of Java.

I the latter part of 2005 a good friend of mine introduced me to Ruby On Rails. I was pretty busy at the time so I sort of brushed it aside and just added it to my already lengthy ToDo list.

A few months later, when I started to take an in depth look at the infamous "full-stack framework" I was cursing myself inside the first 30 minutes for not doing so sooner. But as I often say, "better late than never", right?

I'm going to use this blog to document my more coherant ramblings as I adventure through Ruby on Rails. My intention here is to provide some (hopefully) useful feedback/hints/tips to those that may come after me. After all, I wouldn't have made it this far were it not for the bloggers, wiki editors and tutorial writers that have gone before me.

As an additional objective, this space will serve as a journal of my efforts as a freelance developer under the umbrella Liru Design. This seems to make sense since most of the freelance projects I work on have been, and will be developed and deployed in Ruby on Rails. What better way to share insight than with real world applications?

So anyway, on with the show.

Thanks and you're welcome.