Ruby on Rails – A Primer

What is Ruby on Rails? When is it the right tool for the job? What powerful features can you use in all of your web applications?

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1. Ruby on Rails
   a primer
   

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2. RUBY on Rails iS...
   an opinionated web application
   development framework
   

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3. Framework
   

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4. web application
   By any other name — Jeremy Keith
   http://adactio.com/journal/6246/
   

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8. opinionated
   

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9. What does Rails Give
   you?
   

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10. 1. Security
    CSRF, SQL Injection, XSS
    

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11. 2. Form BUilders
    Succinct & Consistent Forms
    

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12. 
    Title
    
    Body
    
    
    
    

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13. <%= form_for(@post) do |f| %>
    <%= f.label :title %>
    <%= f.text_field :title %>
    <%= f.label :body %>
    <%= f.text_area :body %>
    <%= f.submit %>
    <% end %>
    

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14. <%= simple_form_for(@post) do |f| %>
    <%= f.input :title %>
    <%= f.input :body %>
    <%= f.button :submit %>
    <% end %>
    simple_form
    https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form
    

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15. 3. REstful Router
    Consistent URLs
    

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16. GET /posts
    GET /posts/1
    GET /posts/new
    POST /posts
    GET /posts/1/edit
    PUT /posts/1
    DELETE /posts/1
    

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17. resources :posts
    

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18. 4. Asset Pipeline
    Best Practices for CSS &
    Javascript
    

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19. 5. Powerful ORM
    Active Record
    

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20. has_many :comments
    

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21. validates_presence_of :title
    

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