Initial Server Configuration - Ruby on Rails tutorial

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This is a basic example of how to use ferret, acts_as_ferret, and will_paginate to implement search functionality in a Ruby on Rails application.

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.

I'm a ruby and rails newcomer, and for my wordpress blog "nubyonrails" decided to work through David Heinemeier Hansson's famous "blog site" Rails demo movie, from the FISL 6.0 conference in Brazil, 2005. It's written for fellow ruby/rails newcomers but covers quite a lot of ground.

Learn how to create many models in a single form.

With Rubyforge and RubyGem, learn how to configure the initial runtime with all necessary features included when you're trying to set up Ruby on Rails on Windows.