Hey Guys,<p>I'm really trying to get into node.js.<p>Right now I'm predominantly a rails dev and using JQuery for front end fun.<p>I've taken classes in javascript/java/c++ etc. but I'm pretty rusty with languages I havent used in forever.<p>I'm really trying to use node.js with rails apps I'll be creating - any suggestions where I should start?<p>Thanks!
Like anything, I'd suggest thinking of something that is a bit past "trivial" but working on something you need. For a lot of Node.JS projects, that typically means doing something realtime-comminicatively, that typically wouldn't scale in times gone by.<p>NowJS is a good starting point too. <a href="http://nowjs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://nowjs.com/</a><p>I started by creating a "server" for quartz composer, wherein I'd connect a TCP socket to Node, then I'd tell the composition when an XML file had updated, which would trigger the composition to reload the xml.