1. Ruby on Rails
#1 First look
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2. Why we talk about RoR?
• It's popular
• Plug and play
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3. What is it?
• RoR is a web application development framework
written in the Ruby language
• RoR like DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
• RoR like COC (Convention Over Configuration)
• RoR like REST (organizing your application
around resources and standard HTTP verbs is the
fastest way to go)
• RoR like MVC
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4. Little bit of history
• Created by Danish programmer
for 37signals like managment tool
in July 2004 .
• 2005 shared first commit
rights for comunity
• December 2005 ‑ 1.0
• December 2007 ‑ 2.0
• August 2010 ‑ 3.0
• August 2012 ‑ 3.2.8 (last stable) David Heinemeier Hansson
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5. Ok, but what is Ruby?
• Look to second presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/helper2424/ruby‑on‑
rails232
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6. Links
• http://rubyonrails.org/ ‑ official site
• http://www.rubyonrails.ru/ ‑ RoR site by russian
comunity
• http://www.ruby‑lang.org/en/ ‑ Ruby official
site
• http://37signals.com/ ‑ official site RoR
developers
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier
_Hansson ‑ David Heinemeier Hansson
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7. Links too
• https://github.com/rails/rails/ ‑ RoR repository
• http://api.rubyonrails.org/ ‑ documentation for
last stable version
• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ ‑ guides for last
version
• http://railsforzombies.org/ ‑ funny courses fro
beginers
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8. Literature in RU
• Sam Ruby ,Dave Thomas ,Havid Heinemeier
Hansson "Agile Web Development with Rails":
good book, but for version 3.1
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9. Literature in EN
• Sam Ruby ,Dave Thomas ,Havid Heinemeier
Hansson "Agile Web Development with Rails":
good book and for version 3.2
• Obie Fernandez "The Rails 3 Way" : good book, It
has rails mechanism description, read after "Agile
Web Development with Rails"
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10. Additional (must read) literature
• David Chelimsky "The RSpec Book" : Ruby TDD
• Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy "The Cucumber
Book": how use cucumber, tests ad specification
right
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