RailsConf Keynote: David Heinemeier Hansson. Download the PresentationBefore you listen, download the PDF. It’ll give you all the pointers and samplers spoken about in the presentation. Good stuff. With the release of Rails 1.2 we take a look back at David Heinemeier Hansson’s RailsConf keynote from Chicago. In it, he outlines a number of issues that the Rails team was looking at as they moved towards the current release, the importance of opinionated software and of course, how he “learned to stop worry and love the CRUD.”
Here, briefly, is an outline of the talk: RSB. Welcome! [Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language] Rolling with Ruby on Rails. By Curt Hibbs 01/20/2005 Editor's note: Curt Hibbs and Bill Walton have updated this tutorial for Rails 1.2 in Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited and Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited, Part Two.
We recommend those tutorials for all new Rails development. Also check out Bill Walton's monthly series, Cookin' With Ruby on Rails. Maybe you've heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you'd like to give it a try, but you don't know anything about Ruby or Rails. This article steps through the development of a web application using Rails.
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide. Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials. A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails.
The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful: Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. Railscasts - Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts.