Ruby on Rails for .Net Developers

I gave this intro to Rails talk to the Chicago .NET Users Group on September 12, 2007.

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1. Ruby on Rails
2. “Web development that doesn’t hurt” RoR is an open-source web framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautifiul code by favoring convention over configuration. -RubyOnRails.org
4. Don’t Repeat Yourself - Keep it DRY
5. Don’t Repeat Yourself - Keep it DRY Convention Over Configuration
6. Don’t Repeat Yourself - Keep it DRY Convention Over Configuration Agile Development
7. Embrace Web Constraints
   Not Hide Them
8. Examples
12. Why Rails?
13. Ruby MVC Architecture Migrations ActiveRecord Scaffolding Test Framework
14. Ruby
15. dynamic scripting language everything is an object designed with programmer happiness in mind
18. MVC
    ! The ActionPack
19. Model Manages application state Enforces business rules View Generates the user interface
 html, js, xml, pdf, etc... Controller Orchestrates interactions between model & view
20. Fill in the blanks
21. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123
22. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 Routing
23. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 Routing
24. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 StoreController Routing
25. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 StoreController Routing
26. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 StoreController Routing add_to_cart Action
27. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 StoreController Routing add_to_cart Action
28. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 Model StoreController Routing add_to_cart Action
29. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 Database Model StoreController Routing add_to_cart Action
30. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 Database Model StoreController Routing add_to_cart Action add_to_cart View
31. fakecompany.com/store/add_to_cart/123 Database Model StoreController Routing add_to_cart Action add_to_cart View
32. people-friendly urls action security and access control caching session management
34. someplace.com/store/add_to_cart/123 :controller => store :action => add_to_cart :id => 123
43. Migrations
44. database neutral description of a change reversible managed in source control alongside app
46. ActiveRecord
47. ActiveRecord design pattern object relational mapper vender neutral data layer db to ruby type translation pre-built to handle many common scenarios
48. Model = Singular Table = Plural
49. Model = Singular Customer => Customers Person => People Table = Plural
52. Testing
53. automated unit tests automated functional tests automated integration tests fixtures for sample data
56. Getting Started
58. Windows: 1. download from RubyForge.org 2. gem install rails --include-dependencies 3. ready to run
59. Windows: 1. download from RubyForge.org 2. gem install rails --include-dependencies 3. ready to run OS X Leopard 1. ready to run
60. Sample
61. What we Saw database migrations Model-View-Controller ActiveRecord scaffolding validation
62. Criticisms
64. performance
65. performance constraints
66. performance constraints maturity
67. Questions? @michaeldwan mpdwan@gmail.com