Ruby on Rails manual - Installing Rails

Contents

Ruby on Rails:

Table of Contents

Preface

Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails

1.1. Rails Strengths

1.2. Putting Rails into Action

1.3. Organization

1.4. The Web Server

1.5. Creating a Controller

1.6. Building a View

1.7. Tying the Controller to the View

1.8. Under the Hood

1.9. What's Next?

Active Record Basics

2.1. Active Record Basics

2.2. Introducing Photo Share

2.3. Schema Migrations

2.4. Basic Active Record Classes

Active Record Relationships

3.1. belongs_to

3.2. has_many

3.3. has_one

3.4. What You Haven't Seen

3.5. Looking Ahead

Scaffolding

4.1. Using the Scaffold Method

4.2. Replacing Scaffolding

4.3. Generating Scaffolding Code

4.4. Moving Forward

Extending Views

5.1. The Big Picture

5.2. Seeing Real Photos

5.3. View Templates

5.4. Setting the Default Root

5.5. Stylesheets

5.6. Hierarchical Categories

5.7. Styling the Slideshows

Ajax

6.1. How Rails Implements Ajax

6.2. Playing a Slideshow

6.3. Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides

6.4. Drag and Drop Everything (Almost Everything)

6.5. Filtering by Category

Testing

7.1. Background

7.2. Ruby's Test::Unit

7.3. Testing in Rails

Installing Rails

Quick Reference

5.3. RJS (Ruby JavaScript)

5.8. Configuring Your Application

About the Authors

Colophon

Index

Ruby on Rails manual

Installing Rails

Ruby on Rails makes developing web applications easier and more productive than ever before. Not surprisingly, getting a Ruby on Rails development environment installed is pretty easy as well.

This appendix will show you how to get a Rails development environment installed. But be forewarned: this is a very short appendix because getting started is pretty darn easy.