Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular framework for building database-backed web applications. This presentation provides an overview of the Rails framework, the Ruby language, and what makes Ruby on Rails so exciting for developers. We'll see what all the fuss is about and why Ruby on Rails is worth learning for .NET and Java developers. Finally, we'll look at some working code together and discuss how Ruby on Rails stacks up against other web frameworks.

1. Ruby on Rails for .NET Developers Brad Tutterow Daugherty Business Solutions

2. What is it?

3. Ruby the Programming Language Rails the Web Framework

5. What’s the big deal?

6. Fun!

7. Easy

8. Productive

9. Why should I care?

10. Broaden your Horizons

11. Be a better .NET Developer

12. What is Ruby?

13. Object Oriented Java Python Ruby VB.NET C++ C#

14. Dynamically Typed Design Time Run Time

15. Duck Typing

16. The Ruby Language

17. The .each Method

18. Everything’s an object

19. Defining methods

20. “unless” statement

21. “if” at the end

22. Garbage Collection Object Oriented Good IDE’s Public and Private Methods Similar to C#

23. No Compile-time checking No curly braces or semicolons Interpreted Dynamic Typing Different from C#

24. What is Rails?

25. A free and open source Web Framework

26. Model View Controller Framework

28. Convention over Configuration

29. D.R.Y. Don’t Repeat Yourself Each piece of knowledge should have one and only one place to live

30. An object that wraps a row in a database table or view, encapsulates the database access, and adds domain logic on that data. ~ Martin Fowler Active Record

31. Running Rails

32. Runs on ….

33. Store stuff in … And others …

34. Write code with ….

35. Walkthrough Creating a Rails Project in 3 Steps

36. Step 1

37. They ALL look like this

38. Step 2

39. Step 3

40. Tada!!

41. DEMO how_long website

42. MVC in Practice

43. Model Controller request response View

44. Routes map URLs to Controllers and Actions parameters (passed to the action method) controller (a class) action (method on the controller)

45. Routes map URLs to Controllers and Actions

46. Demo Routes, Controllers, and Views

48. Creating a new controller

49. To the code

50. Demo Creatinga new Model

51. Creating a new model

52. To the code

53. Free methods!

54. Demo Controllers and Models

55. Demo Forms

56. Things to remember FUN EASY PRODUCTIVE

57. Things to remember Broaden Horizons Improve .NET Skills