Ruby On Rails : RoR
January 13th, 2011 . by Anup| You no doubt would have heard about Rails or RoR or Ruby On Rails. They all refer to the same thing.If you’re wondering what that is or if it is for you , you’ve come to the right place. Ruby on Rails is huge these days . Read on to know what its about. |
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Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology that is used by web developers for rapid development.
What that means is that Ruby On Rails helps you write Web apps Fast. These days interactive websites are also referred to as web apps. Web developers would have had to code the whole app by hand. A lot of it would be commonly used functions. Needless to say this used to take time , energy and brain power. Brain power , energy and time better spent elsewhere like testing and thinking out the important sensitive functions of the site. Frameworks like Ruby On Rails reduce the time and complexity of writing up something like a Web App.
Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
to develop can be produced in a matter of days.”
This is a list post. Instead of trying to fit everything about RoR in one post, I thought I’d share links to some seriously great resources on RoR.
Sites running on Ruby on Rails :
Shopify: E-commerce made |
Penny Arcade: Comic |
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Free Resources :
http://tryruby.org/ - Learn ruby from the convenience of your browser. This is meant to be a quick and dirty short tutorial. Not like the others.
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ – Guides on rails from the Official Rails Site.
http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/learn-ruby-on-rails – Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner’s Tutorial from Sitepoint . Check out the related articles column too.
http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ruby/rails-quickstart.html – NetBeans Tutorial on using Rails
http://railstutorial.org/ – Ruby on Rails Tutorial
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/19/getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails/ – Smashing Magazine’s getting started with Ruby on Rails.
http://thinkvitamin.com/category/code/ruby-on-rails/ – Thinkvitamin’s tutorials on Rails.
Not So Free Resources :
http://www.lynda.com/home/ViewCourses.aspx?lpk0=835 – Lynda.com’s tutorials for RoR. They’re not free but worth it if you’re looking for short , easy to understand tutorials.
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails2/ – Sitepoint’s book “Simply Rails 2″ . This book is perfect for the beginner. You need to know some HTML and CSS. But nothing else.
https://www.packtpub.com/building-dynamic-websites-with-ruby-on-rails/book – Packt Publishing’s building dynamic websites with ruby on rails.
