Ruby on Rails A Crash Course

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Ruby on RailsA Crash Course

• Dan Pickett
• Enlight Solutions, Inc.
• www.enlightsolutions.com

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What do you want to know?

• Whiteboard Session

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Overview

• What is Ruby on Rails?
• The Geek Stuff
• Applications Using Rails
• Resources
• A Web Application in 5 minutes
• Your Questions and Comments

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What is Ruby on Rails?

• Painless Software Development
• David Heinemeier Hansson (creator) would say Ruby
  on Rails is beautiful
• It reads well
• Its extremely portable
• It allows developers to focus on functionality
  and not the internal wiring

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The Geek Stuff

• MVC Design Pattern
• Model The Data
• View What the user is looking at
• Controller What controls the experience
• 3 Tiered Database Architecture
• Automated Object Relational Mapping
• Database Versioning

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Advanced Geek Stuff

• Migrations
• Fixtures
• Automated Testing
• Automated Deployment (Capistrano)

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Applications Using Rails

• Typo (Blog)
• Mephisto (Blog / CMS) - Beta
• Shopify (E-Commerce)
• 37Signals Products

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Resources

• Rubyonrails.org
• API, Screencasts, Wiki
• Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails - Dave
  Thomas
• The Blog Community