Ruby on Rails 2.1 Tutorial

Ruby on Rails is an extremely productive web application framework written in Ruby by David Heinemeier Hansson. This tutorial gives you a complete understanding on Ruby on Rails 2.1.

Audience

This tutorial has been designed for beginners who would like to use the Ruby framework for developing database-backed web applications.

Prerequisites

Before you start Ruby on Rails, please make sure you have a basic understanding on the following subjects −

• Ruby syntax and language constructs such as blocks.
• Relational databases and SQL.
• HTML documents and CSS.