Apple Publishes Ruby On Rails Tutorial

bonch writes "Apple has noticed the high amount of Mac usage in the Ruby on Rails community and has posted an illustrated Ruby on Rails tutorial. The document goes into more concise detail in getting new users up to speed, from database schema to moving beyond scaffolding, all done with the favored Rails editor, Textmate."

Comments

Rails is OK, but exposes too much SQL

[YetAnotherName]

See also this screencast for a comparison of Ruby on Rails, Zope (Plone), TurboGears, and Django. Oh, and J2EE which fares ... rather poorly in my opinion.

Warning: the screencast is 36 minutes long!

no Locomotive love?

[cygnus]

i'm kind of bummed that they didn't mention Locomotive, which really makes getting started with Rails very very easy. it seems like every Rails tutorial starts with "OK compile Ruby, install Gems, install Rails, install and configure MySQL, and 10 hours later, you can use this really simple framework!" when with Locomotive and SQLite3, you can basically just download one app, click two buttons, and start typing.

Re:I'm trying to learn RoR, but I have some issues

[killjoe]

"* Migrations are "database agnostic""

As long as your database is mysql. If it's anything else you have to take your chances. Postgres is supported pertty well, everybody else can go fuck themselves because it won't work at all.