Ruby on Rails 101
December 13th, 2007
Tonight I presented an introduction to Ruby on Rails at the NEO Ruby Users Group. My goal was to show, rather than tell, so my slides don’t contain a ton of information, but the slides combined with the sample code should be a helpful reference as you get started with Rails. For those who missed the presentation, I walked through creating a basic web app to display a recipe (as in cooking). This shows off most of the major, unique features of Rails, save for Ajax & RJS templates.
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For those interested in learning more about Ruby & Ruby on Rails, check out the following resources:
- Agile Web Development with Rails
- Programming Ruby
- Programming Ruby (3rd Ed.) [currently in beta—updated to cover the features of Ruby 1.9]
- Nate Klaiber’s Book Review Blog for technical book reviews, many Ruby oriented, some not
- This blog – I have been posting more Ruby examples as I’ve been working with it more often as of late
- Mike Riley’s blog
- Pretty much any book on this site
And for your enjoyment, here is the Dilbert cartoon I had on the final slide, but was not fully visible due to the stupid projector cutting off my screen:
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January 7th, 2008 at 06:14 AM
Thanks for the slides and code. I am going to learn Ruby on Rails this year. What book do you recommend for a someone brand new to it?