What to do about 500 errors - Ruby on Rails tutorial

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This is a simple and direct tutorial on Ruby-on-Rails using Instant Rails in Windows-2000. Absolute beginners can run their first real program in just 20 minutes.

Learn how to use Autotest for Rails in a Windows XP environment.

Nested resources were introduced in Rails 1.2 and are touted as the Right Way to do REST with parent-child model associations. If your app has a url that reads something like /employees?company_id=1, a switch to nested resources would cause it to read /companies/1/employees. Here's a detailed guide to developing with these new changes in mind.

In this article we'll look at an alternative debugging tool for debugging Rails applications (or any Ruby script, for that matter) while still remaining up-to-date with the latest version of the Ruby interpreter. This tool is even slated to be bundled with future releases of Rails.

In a previous tutorial you learned how to get started using the Ruby language as a web scripting language by embedding it in HTML. You need some type of database connectivity to do the cool dynamic stuff. So here is a tutorial written by Markus Jais on how to connect to a MySQL database using Ruby.