Part 2 of Ruby on Rails Tutorial Online

An anonymous reader writes "Curt Hibbs has released Part 2 of his tutorial Rolling with Ruby on Rails to the O'Reilly ONLamp site. The first part was published in January. Topics covered are database transactions, callbacks, unit testing and caching." From the article: "In Rolling with Ruby on Rails, I barely scratched the surface of what you can do with Ruby on Rails. I didn't talk about data validation or database transactions, and I did not mention callbacks, unit testing, or caching. There was hardly a mention of the many helpers that Rails includes to make your life easier. I can't really do justice to all of these topics in the space of this article, but I will go into details on some of them and present a brief overview of the rest, with links to more detailed information."

Comments

Re:Python Version of RoR

[Colonel Panic]

Sorry...
That should be 'immolation is the sincerest form of flattery'.

Re:Python Version of RoR

[Anonymous Coward]

Being able to define natural looking domain-specific languages using Ruby's code blocks seems like something that would be very difficult in Python. But as they say, imiation is the sincerest form of flattery...

Yes, the guys who invented Smalltalk must be really proud that Ruby has finally managed to produce a popular version of all their innovations.

Re:Sounds exciting...

[drew]

yeah, 'cause BeOS and MS-DOS are crucial platforms to support when you're developing an enterprise framework.