Do you ever explain to people what you do? People that do not have the first thing about programming. Ones that don’t know about byte code, methods, arrays; the ones that always say “ugh, I couldn’t do that at all, I just don’t understand that stuff.” Well, then I tell them that Ruby doesn’t have to be any of that. You code like you talk, Ruby, is only slightly coded.

Here at Slightly Coded, we will primarily be writing about many topics in the Ruby ecosystem, though on occasion I’m sure we will stray. Things we find interesting are Rails, Merb, and Datamapper.

For the first little while, we will be giving a beginners tutorial on how to build a small-medium rails website on shared hosting. This is for people who already have a basic grasp of Ruby and Rails, but have done nothing professionally, and have just found their first client.

Later on, we will focus here and there on tips and example scripts, covering routing, caching, Content Management System Websites, SEO, Ajax, and hopefully lots and lots of Merb.