Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 2 - Ruby on Rails tutorial

Category: Ruby on Rails tutorials > Basics - Difficulty:

Create a photo gallery using the attachment_fu plugin.

This tutorial shows how to use the mysql-ruby module to access MySql databases from Ruby.

Learn the basics of reading a stack trace.

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

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.