A-Z Introduction to Ruby on Rails - RailsConf Tutorial

Many come to RailsConf without being in the Rails world for very long, and are looking for a simple introduction to get started. Attendees to this interactive tutorial will gain a full understanding of Ruby on Rails.

Tutorial Outline

- Introduction to Ruby

- Introduction to Rails

- Hands-on Lab - Create a basic Rails application - Explain MVC and see how Rails implements it - Generate scaffold and see what is where - Delve into ActiveRecord and how relationships work - Migrations: why and how - Capistrano and deployment options