Learning Notes about Agile Web Development with Rails

Ruby on Rails two philosophy:
1. DRY, don't repeat yourself.
Modulize the program, remove duplication. Ruby does very well basically, Rails was written in Ruby.
2. Convention over configuration.
Follow convention, write less code than use XML in Java.

Agile development core ideas:
1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
2. Working software over comprehensive documentation
3. Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4. Responding to change over following a plan

Rails is agile itself! Elegant, faster, programmer-friendly.