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Part 2 of Ruby on Rails Tutorial Online

Posted by Zonk on from the productive-coding dept.

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."

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  1. Rails and other Rails tutorials by teidou · · Score: 5, Informative

    To explain Ruby on Rails, I could say it is a highly integrated model-view-controller type web application framework. That would be like saying a Ferrari is a 4 wheeled internal combustion vehicle: true, but misses the point.

    For more info, see RubyOnRails.com. An good alternative tutorial is at http://rails.homelinux.org/.

    There are even better introductory materials coming. Dave Thomas (of Pragmatic Programmers) is working on a Rails book, chapters are being reviewed presently.

    Rails is powerful an flexible. More importnatly, it's a lot of fun. If you are a programmer who want to enjoy web-based application development, please do take a look at Rails.

  2. Re:Any interesting projects? by elmartinos · · Score: 5, Informative
    Shure! Even though Ruby on Rails is really very young, there are a few commercial sites that use it already. Here are a few links: Although, the first 3 links are somewhat related.
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  3. Re:Sounds exciting... by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Informative

    No way this framework will replace existing java frameworks

    There is actually a chance it may become a mainstream way of building an enterprise framework. There is a very cool new bytecode Ruby virtual machine and just-in-time compiler (YARV), and the next generation of Ruby, Ruby 2, will support native OS threading. Unlike Java, the source for Ruby is and will be completely open & transparent. Ruby can run on platforms where java can't, like BeOS and MS-DOS.