Ruby on Rails for .NET DevelopersBrad TutterowDaugherty Business Solutions

What is it?

Ruby the ProgrammingLanguageRails the Web Framework

What’s the big deal?

Fun!

Easy

Productive

Why should I care?

Broaden your Horizons

Be a better .NET Developer

What is Ruby?

Object OrientedJavaPythonRubyVB.NETC++C#

Dynamically TypedDesign TimeRun Time

Duck Typing

The RubyLanguage

The .each Method

Everything’s an object

Defining methods

“unless” statement

“if” at the end

Garbage CollectionObject OrientedGood IDE’sPublic and Private MethodsSimilar to C#

No Compile-time checkingNo curly braces or semicolonsInterpretedDynamicTypingDifferent from C#

What is Rails?

A free and open sourceWeb Framework

ModelViewController Framework

Convention over Configuration

D.R.Y.Don’t Repeat YourselfEach piece of knowledge shouldhave one and only one place to live

An object that wraps a row in a database table or view, encapsulates the database access, and adds domain logic on that data. ~ Martin FowlerActiveRecord

Running Rails

Runs on ….

Store stuff in …And others …

Write code with ….

WalkthroughCreating a Rails Projectin 3 Steps

Step 1

They ALL look like this

Step 2

Step 3

Tada!!

DEMOhow_longwebsite

MVC in Practice

ModelControllerrequestresponseView

Routes map URLs to Controllers and Actionsparameters(passed to the action method)controller(a class)action (method on the controller)

Routes map URLs to Controllers and Actions

DemoRoutes, Controllers, and Views

Creating a new controller

To the code

DemoCreatinga new Model

Creating a new model

To the code

Free methods!

DemoControllers and Models

DemoForms

Things to rememberFUNEASYPRODUCTIVE

Things to rememberBroaden HorizonsImprove .NET Skills