Ruby on Rails Tutorials — Basics

Ruby on Rails is a elegant framework with an abundance of built in functions. However, sometimes finding and implementing the right ones for your project isn't always easy. Here, we'll review 8 lesser-known tips that will enable you to get the most out of your dynamic web application.

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Describing the process of setting up RoR2 and developing a small application. The tutorial touches most aspects of RoR development, form helpers, activerecord and Ajax to name a few.

Displaying flash messages in the layout can be a pain at times. In this episode you will learn an easy way to display any kind of flash message by looping through the hash.

This week we're going to talk about ruby syntax. After this tutorial, I believe that you'll have a much better understanding of the framework and feel much more comfortable doing things by yourself.

We're going to talk about manipulating the structure of the project in two ways (rendering & redirecting). We'll also talk about how you add links in rails, and how to comment code.

This week, we'll do a little bit more with getting an actual page up and running. We'll also work on adding more interactivity by embedding ruby in HTML and learning a little about variables. After that, we'll learn more about Ruby's beautiful URL structure and how to manipulate it, plus other things as well.

Everything you wanted to know about layouts: global layouts, controller layouts, shared layouts, dynamic layouts and action layouts. Yes, there really are that many ways to specify a layout.