Lecture 04

About Ruby On Rails

• http://www.rubyonrails.org
• Created by David Heinemeier Hansson aka DHH in July 2004 by extracting code from a famous project management tool Basecamp
• Ruby On Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby and uses power of Ruby (meta-programming, duck-typing and so on) strongly
• Model-View-Controller architecture
• String opinionated software (The Rails Way)
• Magic
• Rails philosophy is based on Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY), Convention over configuration (CoC) and REST (Representational state tranfer)

Lecture

This lecture is based mainly on the guide Getting Started with Rails and other guides from Rails Guides which is very suitable for beginners.

During the lecture will be demonstrated each odd part of Rails MVC architecture. For further and deeper reading about Ruby On Rails we recommend to take a look at the following list of additional resources about Ruby On Rails which can help you in understanding or expending knowledge:

• Rails For Zombies -- Interactive way to learn basic of Ruby on Rails
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial - Learn Rails by Example -- Very detailed tutorial with explained wide parts of Ruby on Rails by examples
• Railscasts -- mainly free videocasts about wide topics around Ruby On Rails