developer.apple.com — Apple has put up a very concise tutorial on building web apps using Rails. It gives a more complete view of Rails than I have seen in other getting-started tutorials and also shows some much better practices like migrations to build the database instead of raw, unportable SQL.
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mattramosFeb 28, 2006
Interesting.I like my Agile Web Development with Rails more, though. :)
peerkFeb 28, 2006
Digg++Its great to see Steve Jobs, the inventor of Ruby on Rails, write a tutorial on it.
msephtonFeb 28, 2006
You can also side-step all this command line nonsense and use Locomotive, which is an all-in-one application that contains a full Ruby environment (Ruby, Rails, Gem, server, database.<a class="user" href="http://locomotive.sourceforge.net">http://locomotive.sourceforge.net</a>
soyverdeFeb 28, 2006
dugg. I'd like to add my vote for locomotive (for development on the mac). It will (rather quickly) let you start learning RoR without having to deal with the whole "Apple's version of Ruby is old/broken/teh sux0rz" issue.
matthomFeb 28, 2006
Excellent reference. Thanks.
stoavioMar 1, 2006
Very cool. +DIGG