Ruby on Rails
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Every wonder about all this hype around Ruby on Rails? Why everyone is talking about it? What is that Rails thing all about?
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. Spoken plainly, this means an application framework that makes it very quick to develop a new web application, very easy to extend an existing application, and makes long term maintenance of these applications extremely clear and simple.
Sean Dague will be presenting getting started with Ruby on Rails. This will include developing a simple web application from scratch to show some of the basic principles of working with Ruby on Rails.
The presentation will also demonstrate how to use Ruby on Rails to work with legacy systems, and show a number of applications and source code built on top of Rails written by Sean.
Presentation
Notes
The presentation is more background material as the talk was pretty interactive and in the code. I might create a screen cast for it later (if so this page will be updated). If you didn't make it to the talk, I highly recommend the Rails Screen Cast below. It will walk you through a lot of the project basics the same way that I did (on a different project however).
Links of Interest
- "The Book" - Agile Development with Ruby on Rails - 3rd edition - make sure to get the 3rd edition, not the 2nd
- The main Ruby on Rails website
- Rails Screen Cast - Building Blog platform from scratch in 15 minutes
- NetBeans Ruby on Rails - a very reasonable IDE for doing rails development
Lightning Talks
There will be time for up to 1 lightning talks at the start of the meeting. Please email the list if you have an idea, or just show up prepared to give your lightning talk.
- How to create a System Rescue USB thumb drive.
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