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RailsConf 2010
Baltimore, Maryland July 7 - June 10, 2010
( 12 available presentations )
Happening June 7-10, 2010 at the Baltimore Convention Center, RailsConf is the largest official event for the Ruby on Rails community. If you're passionate about Rails and what it helps you achieve—or are curious about how Rails can help you create web applications better and faster—RailsConf is the place to be.
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Ruby on Rails is open source
Ruby on Rails is open source software, so not only is it free to use, you can also help make it better. More than 4,200 people already have contributed code to Rails. It’s easier than you think to become one of them.
Optimizing for programmer happiness with Convention over Configuration is how we roll. The Rails Doctrine.
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This week in Rails
Weekly inside scoop of interesting commits, pull requests and more from Rails, delivered to your inbox every Friday.
In the span of a few weeks, over 450 readers subscribed to my newsletter. Except for the one issue that went into the spam folder, the newsletter had consistently logged an open rate of over 80% and over 40% click rate.
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Rails has everything you need
Ruby on Rails is not a minimalist framework, it's a metropolis. One filled with all the major institutions needed to run a large, sprawling application like Basecamp or GitHub or Shopify.
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Getting Started with Rails
After reading this guide, you will know:
- How to install Rails, create a new Rails application, and connect your application to a database.
- The general layout of a Rails application.
- The basic principles of MVC (Model, View, Controller) and RESTful design.
- How to quickly generate the starting pieces of a Rails application.
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What is Rails?
The Rails philosophy includes two major guiding principles:
- Don't Repeat Yourself: DRY is a principle of software development which states that "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system." By not writing the same information over and over again, our code is more maintainable, more extensible, and less buggy.
- Convention Over Configuration: Rails has opinions about the best way to do many things in a web application, and defaults to this set of conventions, rather than require that you specify every minutiae through endless configuration files.
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Imagine what you could build if you learned Ruby on Rails…
Learning to build a modern web application is daunting. Ruby on Rails makes it much easier and more fun. It includes everything you need to build fantastic applications, and you can learn it with the support of our large, friendly community.