Treffer: Creating Todo List with Ruby On Rails

by thehua | beginner's guide | revision 1.0 3/2/2006 Ruby on Rails(RoR) is a rapid application development framework. Ruby is the language, Rails is the framework. The videos on rubyonrails.org are aweinspiring and can convince any web developer to switch or at the very least think about jumping ship. I, for one, became extremely interested in this and quickly hopped on board. Everything seemed so perfect server setup was quick and simple, ruby on rails integration smooth, and even the initial Hello World was easy then came the hard part, coding an application. RoR is great except for one thing: lack of great tutorials. Sure onlamp.com has a few, but those are 1 sql table, scaffolding, and template editing tutorials. For the real data mining and business logic executing capabilities of RoR, one would really need to buy a book. (I highly recommend Agile Web Development with Rails buy pdf online so you can get free lifetime updates of the book.) But for those of us who either can't afford or wish to merely play around with the language first what should we do? That's where I hope to help. To go beneath the surface of RoR, I've developed an uptodate tutorial on creating a Todo List ruby on rails application. Sure there are other todo list tutorials online, but I've found most are quite out of date and do not apply to rails 1.0 or beyond and they do not include relational database manipulations. This tutorial is targeted towards Ruby on Rails beginners and I hope to answer most trivial questions encountered when first working with this framework. Please feel free to leave errata and comments. Before we being, make sure you have a working development environment.