Ruby on Rails 2.0 Released

Via Peter Cooper.

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, announced the final release of Ruby on Rails, the Ruby-based Web application development framework, in its version 2.0. The new Rails 2.0 features are available here.

Introduction to Ruby

Via Peter Cooper.

Lucas Holland has produced four videos to introduce Ruby.





Video 1 explores some core concepts behind Ruby







Video 2 shows how to install Ruby








Video 3 looks at some of the tools that are part of a Ruby distribution







Video 4 introduces some of Ruby's datatypes and methods for creating shell output

Ruby on Rails 101

Via Peter Cooper.

A nice slideset by Peter Marklund. The slides are from a five day "Rails 101" course and include an excellent introduction to different Rails topics (installation, Ruby, migrations, ActiveRecord, forms, views, Rails 2.0, deployment, etc). The slides can be downloaded as a PDF file here. They are also available at Slideshare.

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Rails vs .Net

More videos from Rails Envy

Rails vs. Net



Ruby on Rails vs. PHP

Ruby on Rails vs Java/PHP

Via Nanda´s blog

Ruby on Rails vs Java



Ruby on Rails vs PHP

RailsBrain

Peter Cooper points to a new Rails documentation site called RailsBrain. He writes:

RailsBrain takes the usual "list of methods down the left" approach, but couples it with some nifty AJAX and a very quick server to serve up the docs in record time...If you're already using GotAPI, this isn't likely to interest you, as what it offers is no better, but is just easier to use on the quick.

74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials

A nice guide that provides several good Ruby on Rails resources and tutorials on the Web. Well worth a look!

Ajax and Ruby on Rails

Today, at the chair of Informatik V, Aachen University Germany, we organized a developer´s day in an attempt to introduce Web 2.0 trends such as Ajax and Ruby on Rails. Nanda introduced Ajax und pointed to several intersesting sources related to the same. Heike talked about Ruby on Rails. I´m trying to compile 2 lists of interesting sources related to Ajax and Ruby on Rails. The lists will be updated regularly.

• roundup of 50 Ajax toolkits and frameworks
• Ajax Quellensammlung
• Ajax: A new Approach to Web Applications
• Ajax Basics
• Designing for Ajax
  
• Ajaxian
• Wikipedia Ajax
• Wikipedia Ajax framework
  
• Google Web Toolkit
• Yahoo! User Interface Library
• Prototype JavaScript Framework
  
• dojo, the Javascript Toolkit
• script.aculo.us
• Prototype JavaScript library
• Rico
  
• IBM AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF)
  
• Microsoft Atlas
• Adobe's Flex toolkit
  
• DWR

• http://www.rubyonrails.org/
• Agile Web Development with Rails
• Tutorial Part I
• Tutorial Part II
• Really Getting Started in Rails
• Tutorial try ruby!