Intro to Rails

Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days.
Tim OReilly

Slides

2012

2011

Resources

• Rails for Zombies: Nice intro to basic Rails, and it has Zombies…
• Rails Guides: Official guide for Rails, and a great place for documentation on the components that comprise the Rails framework.
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Great book to work through, getting very
• Railscasts: Great screencasts that show off how to use specific libraries
• asciicasts: Text versions of the Railscasts
• RailsInstaller Video: While this video shows how to install Rails on Windows, it also has a nice walk through a very basic Rails app.

Setup

• Windows: Rails Installer
• OS X: rvm && gem install rails
• *nix: rvm && gem install rails