Ruby on Rails

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[edit] Welcome

Welcome to the Ruby on Rails wikibook.

If you are interested in learning more about the Ruby language, then please go to the Ruby Programming wikibook.

Ruby on Rails, or often seen as RoR is a contemporary web framework used by many web companies such as Twitter, Hulu and Kongregate. It allows developers easily create and maintain applications with very little effort but huge functionality.

[edit] Introduction

• Introduction

[edit] Getting Started

[edit] Installation

• Install on Windows
• Install on OS X
• Install on Linux

[edit] Concepts

• Don't repeat yourself
• Model-View-Controller
• Convention over Configuration

[edit] First Application

• Creating the application
• Running the Server

[edit] Built-In Rails Tools

[edit] Generators

• Generators
• Make a generator

[edit] Rake

• What is Rake anyway?
• Convenient Rake tasks
• Make your own rake tasks
• Command-Line Reference

[edit] ActiveRecord - The Model

• Naming
• Migrations
• Associations
• Callbacks
• Validations
• Attributes
• Aggregations
• Calculations
• acts_as

[edit] ActionView - The View

• Rendering and Redirecting
• Layout Files
• Forms
• Uploads
• Custom Helpers

[edit] ActionController - The Controller

• Actions
• Parameters
• Sessions
• Cookies

[edit] Routing

• Routing

[edit] ActiveSupport

• ActiveSupport

[edit] ActionMailer

• ActionMailer

[edit] Examples

• Examples

[edit] Other Resources

• Other Resources