Fast prototyping with Apache Derby and JRuby on Rails - Ruby on Rails tutorial

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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.

This tutorial gives you complete understanding on how to upload files using Rails

Follow an interactive online RoR tutorial to get you started. What's even more cool is you can use the web based Ruby coding window to test your code online!

Ruby on Rails.. by now most people have heard the hype about it. It promises more effective code, total object orientation, and true MVC architecture to say the least. As far as my own personal experience, it has been all that and more. The code is beautiful, easy to maintain, and edit. In a recent project I was working on, it took me less than 10 hours to do the application, as compared to at least double that if I was writing in PHP.

Move a find into the model to clean up the controllers and remove duplication. Also see how you can call these custom find methods through an association.