Apart from its use as a powerful Web application development platform, in combination with the Rails framework Ruby is also a powerful scripting language. It has immense capabilities, owing to the availability of many built-in and external libraries, the power of which can be harnessed to solve a great deal of the scripting needs that surface in typical systems administrative work environments.
A place where developers can use a collection of existing learning resources or add their own, while communicating with each other and keeping track of what they need to learn.
This tutorial shows how to use the mysql-ruby module to access MySql databases from Ruby.
A beginners tutorial on how to use migrations in your Ruby on Rails app.
I have put all the basic things in place and you will find it a working tutorial for Ruby on Rails 2.1
This is a simple and direct tutorial on Ruby-on-Rails using Instant Rails in Windows-2000. Absolute beginners can run their first real program in just 20 minutes.
This tutorial introduces the RDT and RadRails Eclipse plug-ins and shows you how to get these plug-ins and start using them. You will learn how to use RadRails to do many common Ruby on Rails development tasks.
A basic introduction to Ruby on Rails.
To view:
http://thinkrefresh.com/posts/13/rails-101-introduction
To create a project in Rails you need to be in your Terminal. Find an appropriate place to store your applications, so if you’re on a Mac the “sites” folder is probably a good idea.
To view:
http://thinkrefresh.com/posts/15/rails-101-file-structure
So you’re just about to crack on and dive into that code, but wait, you don’t even need to do that! Rails comes with generators for basic functionality so you can get going as quickly as possible.
To view:
http://thinkrefresh.com/posts/16/rails-101-generators
