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An e-commerce system based on Rails. It includes a CMS with blogging capabilities and a simple shopping cart that's tied into Authorixe.net. Its product and order management allows you to track your online inventory and also view up to the minutes sales report.

This tutorial will focus on the ActionController. The first sections will cover the services provided by ActionController and the techniques to access them. The final section will provide insight into using these techniques in the real world.

This article covers the basic services provided by the ActionView. The ActionView helps you present data to your users. Keep reading to learn some terminology and study an example application.

Ruby has many exciting object oriented features, but a large percentage of your code will revolve around arrays. In this valuable tutorial, we’re going to show you some tips and tricks for this powerful data structure.

RailFrog is a user-friendly, open-source web site deployment and content management system built with Rails; producing well structured and standards-compliant pages with Web 2.0 goodness.

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language, just like Python and PHP. SitePoint's author Daniel Bogan take a look at the language and how it can be used in web development.

Rails Forum is a ruby on rails help and discussion community. It is one of the fastest growing Ruby on Rails communities on the net, and is probably the biggest forum out there dedicated soley to RoR.

Discussion forums for Ruby on Rails prgramming. Cover topics including news, events, articles and tutorials.

This compact guide teaches you the basics of installing and using both the Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework for the quick development of web applications. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running covers just about everything you need - from making a simple database-backed application to adding elaborate Ajaxian features and all the juicy bits in between. While Rails is praised for its simplicity and speed of development, there are still a few steps to master on the way. More advanced material helps you map data to an imperfect table, traverse complex relationships, and build custom finders. A section on working with Ajax and REST shows you how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic user-centric web pages. The book also explains the essentials of logging to find performance problems and delves into other performance optimizing techniques.

his practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will walk you through installing the required software on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer, and then jumps into an introduction to the Ruby programming syntax. The application that the book builds, a user-generated news Website, is added upon chapter by chapter, and concepts such as user authentication, sessions, cookies and basic AJAX usage are gradually introduced. The book finishes of with chapters on reusable code, debugging, and deployment on a live web server. By the end of the book you'll have a solid grasp of Ruby on Rails development and its practical applications in the real-world.

Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Rails--the stacked web framework taking the world by storm. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. You'll take advantage of the latest crop of Rails plug-ins and helpers that will radically improve your programming schedule. You'll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by real-world cases throughout.

The book quickly reviews Rails development and then move to essential enterprise subjects like Web Services (and their relationships with SOA), data persistence, messaging, interoperability with other platforms, handling documents and search, spell-checking, and report generation. It also covers new Web 2.0 technologies like Ajax and the read-write Web. It is rich in examples and covers numerous interesting topics readers will be surprised to see, such as advanced search with Ferret, how to access del.icio.us and Flickr from Ruby, or how to use Yahoo's general search from Ruby. The book closes with a look at the Semantic Web and why it makes sense to adopt semantic Web technologies.

Rails Cookbook is not an introductory tutorial, but a problem-solving book that provides coding solutions for a wide range of tasks. For every problem addressed in the book, you'll find a worked-out solution or "recipe"-- a short, focused piece of code that you can insert directly into your applications. Topics covered in the book include developing scalable web applications, test-driven development, working with active record, and deploying Rails applications. A discussion on each solution is included, so that you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations. This ultimate Rails code sourcebook will save you hundreds of hours.

Beginning Ruby on Rails introduces web development with Ruby on Rails, a powerful new framework. You will learn how to develop basic applications by implementing four projects. Some of the topics covered through the projects include form handling, CSS, security, database integration, model-view-controller architecture, and test-driven programming. Projects include a task manager, a RSS aggregator, a community manager (similar in nature to MySpace.com), and one that utilizes the Amazon API.

Ruby for Rails helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You'll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby's elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you'll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it.

Using a conversational tone and lots of easy-to-follow examples, popular For Dummies author Barry Burd gently introduces programming novices to Web-database processing and development with Ruby on Rails (RoR) The book ranges from Ruby and RoR basics, installation, and writing simple Ruby programs to using RoR with Ajax and creating a blog, a shopping cart, and other real-world projects

SimpleTicket is an open source trouble ticket system written using Ruby on Rails. It boasts the latest features found in today’s rich web applications such as Ajax.

This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an expose. It’s simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both praise and criticism. At times the criticism might appear a bit heavy handed (especially to Rails enthusiasts), but don’t be fooled. Using any Web application framework is going to be tricky, whether it’s J2EE, ASP.NET, or PHP. In the long run, you can be a lot more productive with Rails than you can be with many other Web application development platforms, but it takes time to learn the ropes.

This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an expose. It’s simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both praise and criticism. At times the criticism might appear a bit heavy handed (especially to Rails enthusiasts), but don’t be fooled. Using any Web application framework is going to be tricky, whether it’s J2EE, ASP.NET, or PHP. In the long run, you can be a lot more productive with Rails than you can be with many other Web application development platforms, but it takes time to learn the ropes.

Instiki is a wiki clone with strong focus on ease of installation and running. Instiki makes wiki so easy, you’ll use it for many things — taking notes, brainstorming, organizing gatherings, etc… Basic features: Revisions: Follow changes on any page from birth. Easily rollback to an earlier revision Authors: Each revision is associated with an author, so you can see who changed what RSS feeds: track recently revised pages from an RSS aggregator