Ruby on Rails is an open source web development language that makes creating functional web applications easy and fun.
Many professional web developers are experts at PHP, JavaScript, or other languages, which represent their development comfort zone. But adding Rails development skills to your resume can increase your opportunities and even your earnings.
In this short video, I’ll introduce you to the basics about Ruby on Rails. This is the first video in an ongoing series that will have you up-and-running with Ruby on Rails before you know it.
Several years ago, Ruby on Rails took the programming world by storm and introduced a whole new group of programmers to the open-source community. In this screencast, the first of a new Ecommerce Developer Ruby-on-Rails series, learn a bit about the history of Ruby on Rails and the Ruby programming language. See how quickly a basic Ruby on Rails application can be developed following the concepts of "convention over configuration" and the model, view, controller (MVC) architectural framework.
Helpful Ruby and Ruby on Rails Links
Commands Covered in this Tutorial
- rails screencasts
- cd screencasts/
- rake db:create:all
- ./script/server
- ./script/generate scaffold screencast name:string
- description:text published:boolean published_on:date
- rake db:migrate
