Ruby on Rails resources
November 16, 2005
Ruby and the Rails framework is the newest “hot thing” to hit the net. In order to help you learn, I have scoured the net for the best resources. This is what I came up with 
Enjoy.
What is Ruby on Rails?
http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6251
RubyOnRails Wiki
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails
Installing Ruby, Gems, and Rails
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/GettingStartedWithRails
Instant Rails
Instant Rails, a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. There’s no installer; you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.
http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/
Locomotive for Mac OS X
The Locomotive project is a quick start to Ruby on Rails development on Mac OS X, providing a sandboxed, no configuration, one-folder install of Ruby on Rails, SQLite, Lighttpd/Fastcgi, and much, much more.
http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/
Getting started with the Ruby programming language.
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000199.html
Ryby Docs
http://www.ruby-doc.org/
ONLamp – Rolling with RoR
Part 1: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
Part 2: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/03/rails.html
Installing Rails on Tiger – watch Tiger get Railed!
http://maczealots.com/tutorials/ruby-on-rails/
Rolling with Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Tiger (for beginners)
http://www.tonyarnold.com/articles/2005/08/10/rolling-with-ruby-on-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger-for-beginners
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
This is one of the best Ruby tutorials out there.
HTML: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
PDF: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby.pdf
Ruby on Rails IDE
http://www.radrails.org/
Rails – what goes where…
http://www.slash7.com/articles/2005/03/06/rails-what-goes-where
Really Getting started in Rails
http://www.slash7.com/articles/2005/01/24/really-getting-started-in-rails
Cheat Sheets:
Rails files: http://www.slash7.com/cheats/rails_files_cheatsheet.pdf
Form Helpers: http://www.slash7.com/cheats/form_helpers.pdf
ActiveRecord: http://www.slash7.com/cheats/activerecord_cheatsheet.pdf
4 Days on Rails
Rails is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well documented for beginners, with over 30,000 words of on-line documentation in the format of a reference manual. What’s missing is a roadmap (railmap?) pointing to the key pages that you need to know to get up and running in Rails development.
http://www.rails4days.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Rails4Days.pdf
Nuby on Rails
This is Geoffrey Grosenbach’s blog, covering Ruby, Ruby on Rails, graphic design, and other good stuff
http://nubyonrails.com/
railz0r3d!!
http://www.mans.de/railz0r3d/
Exploring Ruby on Rails
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8217
Creating a small publication management application
A tutorial/walkthrough for making a bit of a more blog like application, using a couple of more advanced features.
http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/48
AJAX on Rails
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html
AJAX Activity indicators with Rails
http://mir.aculo.us/articles/2005/11/14/ajax-activity-indicators-with-rails-0-14-3
http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/2005/11/ajax_activity_i.html
More Rails+AJAX stuff on Ajaxian
http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/ruby/index.html
Making CAPTCHA
http://frankhale.org/CAPTCHA_RoR_Tutorial.html
Some nice Ruby language tutorials.
http://quickruby.blogspot.com/
Distributing Rails Applications
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/distributingrubyapplications/rails.html
Rails API guide
http://api.rubyonrails.com
A Ruby On Rails tutorial for many-to-many relationships
So far I’ve just glanced through this tutorial, but it appears to explain quite a bit how many to many relationships work in Ruby. Something you’ll need for any sort of real world application
http://jrhicks.net/96
How to build an AJAX-ed spellchecker with Ruby On Rails
http://deezsombor.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-build-ajax-ed-spellchecker-with.html
Rails FAQ
http://www.railsfaq.org/
ADVANCED
Sockets Programming in Ruby
http://librenix.com/?inode=7535
Monitor network traffic with Ruby
http://librenix.com/?inode=7502
Comparison: Ruby on Rails vs. J2EE
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/wa-rubyonrails/?ca=dgr-lnxw16RubyAndJ2EE
Looking for a RubyOnRails CMS?
Typo is a lean engine that makes blogging easy. After you install Typo, a web-based admin interface handles configuration and management.
http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/
Need help?
Sitepoint Forums – Ruby : http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=227
That’s all I could find. Let me know if you find more.
November 17, 2005 at 7:21 am
[...] edevil’s weblog » Ruby on Rails resources [...]
November 17, 2005 at 7:48 am
Hmm…dhkaiya wordpress blogger…a noxious combination..both of race and open-source platforms …
Great LIB collection though,
November 17, 2005 at 9:54 am
yeah, dude…bd designers suck…(but not those from http://www.somewherein.net ). I use NVU, a gecko based web-editor that has internal stylesheet maker. Like look at the website of bangladesh’s prmier engineering and technology related site (that of BUET)…it sucks so much that I wonder why it sucks so much…its like they have never heard of any other web-tools outside of Hyper Text Markup and MS Frontpage crap….no css,no Java-script/flash/ajax/php/asp/python or anything else.
anyway, thanks for the comment.I have a wordpress.com account too..but due to lack of customization options, i ditched it.
November 17, 2005 at 12:16 pm
[...] Ruby on Rails is another buzz technology that got a lot of attention lately. Built-In Ajax support, rapid development and mfc (model-view-controller) paradigm help to simply the development of web-applications to a great degree. The differences between the Ruby development model and other development models, like for example php, are vast, and thus it’s usefull to have a bunch of ressource which make the entry or transition easier. On Edevil’s weblog one can find a nice collection of usefull Ruby on Rails ressources, including several Mac related links. [...]
November 18, 2005 at 12:27 pm
Thanks for a link to my Quick Ruby blog. Ruby has started to catch on in Pune, India and I see a lot of interest in Ruby amongst Java programmers. With Bruce Tate and other Java Gurus moving to Ruby, does it sound the down-turn for Java?
November 18, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Absolutely. Ruby along with the Rails framework is perfect for developing business solutions and it beats Java and .NET in terms of flexibility and ease of use. Its also easier to learn.
Keep up the good work on your QuickRuby blog
January 16, 2006 at 11:36 am
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January 31, 2006 at 3:18 am
IndicThreads has just published the interview I took of David Hansson, the inventor of ‘Ruby on Rails’.
http://www.indicthreads.com/interviews/390/ruby_on_rails_java_web_application.html
February 6, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Simple ruby oon rails demo application with source code on each page
http://www.demo.mycompanyreviews.com
February 18, 2006 at 9:59 pm
Don’t forget to add the very nice cheat sheet for rails at http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/ruby-on-rails/ruby-on-rails-cheat-sheet/ to your cheat sheet section mate:)
April 4, 2006 at 5:01 pm
I also have a nice cheat sheet for Textmates Rails Bundle take a look at http://www.method-media.com/blog/2006/04/03/rails-cheat-sheet-for-textmate/
May 24, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Hi to all,
Can anybody suggest me any book regarding ruby and ruby on rails. to learn these from scratch.
June 2, 2006 at 6:57 am
I would suggest visiting Amazon and/or Chapters personally. Seems to never fail for me.
July 8, 2006 at 9:20 pm
12 top ruby-on-rails tutorials:
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top-ruby-on-rails-tutorials
July 13, 2006 at 5:04 pm
So, I have read the spattering of comments, but no-one has really given a comparison between RoR vs AJAX.
Being a newbie to web development and seeing I have a delimma of selecting a tool to use, I’d like to see or hear what your pro’s/con’s are on the two.
July 13, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Hi Stacy. RoR is an application development framework for the Ruby programming language, whereas AJAX is a web development technique involving Javascript and XML.
AJAX can be incorporated into any web application, regardless of the serverside language. You can even add AJAX to plain HTML files!
Google those terms and do some reading to make the concept clear.
October 24, 2006 at 4:03 am
[...] Posted by Andy Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:04:08 GMT I’ve been trying to learn a few things about this whole Ruby on Rails shebang that has been all the rage with those internet kids. It’s a good system and has a lot of power and shortcuts for a developer. There a about a million articles telling how great a lot of this stuff is, and for the most part they are right. [...]
November 6, 2006 at 6:29 pm
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