1. Applied Ruby on Rails & AJAX An insight into the technology and principles behind a social networking community

6. MVC

7. Crash Course [root@srv31 docs]# rails ror create create app/controllers create app/helpers create app/models create app/views/layouts create config/environments create components create db create doc create lib create lib/tasks create log create public/images ... Creating a bare application on Rails [root@srv31 docs]# rails ror

8. Do it with Scaffolding [root@srv31 ror]# ruby script/generate scaffold user exists app/controllers/ exists app/helpers/ create app/views/users exists test/functional/ dependency model exists app/models/ exists test/unit/ exists test/fixtures/ create app/models/user.rb ruby script/generate scaffold user CRUD = ‘C’reate, ‘R’ead, ‘U’pdate, ‘D’elete

9. Experience the magic http://localhost:3000/users http://localhost:3000/users/new

11. URLs in ROR <%= link_to “Reply”, :controller=>”posts”, :action=>“reply”, :id=>4 %>

18. HABTM using Subscriptions class Member has_many :subscriptions end class Portal has_many :subscriptions end class Subscription belongs_to :member belongs_to :portal end

21. Transactions (InnoDB) Member.transaction(@member, @friend) do @member.friends << @friend unless @member.friends.include?(@friend) @friend.friends << @member unless @friend.friends.include?(@member) end

22. Blog Claims def claim_verify @wb= Weblog.find_by_url(@params[:url]) require 'open-uri‘ @found = open(@wb.url).read.include?(@wb.v_key) end

24. Tagging class Article < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_taggable :join_class_name => ' TagArticle ‘ class TagArticle belongs_to :article, :class_name => ' Article ', :foreign_key => 'article_id‘ @tagged = Article.tags_count(:limit => 10) Tagging an article @article = Article.new @article.tag “mysql conference ror” Tags for an article @tags = @article.tags() Tag Cloud (Tom Fakes)

25. In place editing class BlogsController < ApplicationController in_place_edit_for :weblog, :description <%= in_place_editor_field :weblog, :description, :value=>'' %> In your views file In your model

28. Q&A