Friday, 8 May 2009

Massive List of Rails Development Tips

I tried out Ruby on Rails the other day, installing it onto Ubuntu, and the ideas it gave me for improving my coding skills / toolset or just generally improving the way I think about approaching programming projects are amazing. Im glad I found these Ruby on Rails development tips, they break down my learning curve into manageable steps:
Massive List of Rails Development Tips

Note that I got it working by also installing a clean AMP - Apache, MySQL and PHP server, and using Ruby Gems to add RoR support. It is possible to run Ruby without the Apache, the built in WEBrick server runs on port :3000 but you can use both simultaneously.

The cheat sheet graphic comes from https://kaul.inf.fh-brs.de

Installing Ruby on Rails in Ubuntu

Create a blog using Ruby on Rails in 15 steps
(+5 more if you want AJAX)
this tutorial is pretty reasonable, but there are a few filename typos, and you will need to checkout the comments to fix the odd errata or two...

Total time to get it all working: 2h40 mins

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1 Comments:

Blogger Nevyn said...

Why Ruby on Rails? This image explains everything..

09 May 2009 15:39  

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