Beginning Rails 3 Workshop - Episode 1 - Intro

Beginning Rails 3 author Rida Al Barazi, will give an introduction to Rails and its conventions. He will be walking through a quick example by generating a Rails project and build a basic scaffold showing Rails generators in action.

1. Beginning Rails 3 Workshop Rida Al Barazi Ruby Brigade Toronto
2. About Me • Ruby on Rails Developer • Beginning Rails 3 Book • Working at NuLayer Inc. • me@rida.me • rida.me
3. Ruby • Dynamic Language • Inspired by Perl and Smalltalk • Japanese! Yokihiro Matsomuto • Appeared in 1995 • Beautiful Syntax
4. Rails • Web Application Framework • Initial Release: 2004 • Latest Stable Release: 3.0
5. Rails Philosophy •Best Practices •Convention over Configuration •DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself •Testing
6. Rails Components •ActiveRecord •ActionView •ActionController
7. Folder Structure
8. App •models •views •controllers •helpers
9. Database •database.yml •Different Adapters •Default: sqlite3
10. Server •WEBrick •rails server •localhost:3000
11. Migrations •Database versioning •Written in Ruby •rake db:migrate
12. Request Life Cycle
13. Rails Scaffold • Generates Model/View/Controller set • Generates Database Migration • Complete RESTful lifecycle
14. Live Example
15. • Beginning Rails 3 Book • irc: #torontoruby on freenode Resources