The document provides an overview and introduction to Ruby on Rails (Rails), an open-source web application development framework written in Ruby. It discusses that Rails makes web development easier through its model-view-controller architecture and conventions. Examples are given of major websites built with Rails like GitHub and Groupon. The document then walks through installing Rails and generating a basic Rails application with a controller and linked views to get started building a dynamic web application.

1. Agile Web Developmentwith Rails (for 3.1)Ya, that book@LVRUG - Jeremy Woertink

2. What is "Rails" you ask?"Ruby on Rails is a framework that makes it easier to develop, deploy, and maintain web applications.""Rails applications are written in Ruby, a modern, object-oriented scripting language."

3. What is "Rails" you ask?Web Development Framework

4. MVC Architecture

5. Written in Ruby

6. Convention over Configuration

7. RESTful

8. Agile

9. Clean more info given in the Introduction section

10. Who uses it?

11. Websites on RailsYellow Pages

12. Groupon

13. Living Social

14. Github

15. Funny or Die!

16. Pololu

17. Cardplayer

18. ScripSmart

19. and lots of Russ's pr0n....Where's the start button?

20. InstallationYou're in luck, it's a gem! :)$ sudo gem install railssudo may not be needed...

21. ChecklistKnow what it is? CHECKChecklistKnow what it is? CHECK

22. Know who uses it? CHECKChecklistKnow what it is? CHECK

23. Know who uses it? CHECK

24. Know where to get it? CHECKChecklistKnow what it is? CHECK

25. Know who uses it? CHECK

26. Know where to get it? CHECK

27. Know how to use it? NOPE. Chuck TestaGettin' REAL dirty$ cd websiteswebsites$ rails new demo create lots of stuffrun bundle install Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/Your bundle is complete!websites$ cd demodemo$ rails server=> Booting WEBrick => Rails 3.1.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000

28. http://localhost:3000

29. Hello, Rails!demo$ rails generate controller Say hello goodbyecreate more stuff...invoke thingsroute whatever

30. Hello, Rails!demo$ rails generate controller Say hello goodbyecreate more stuff...invoke thingsroute whateverVisit http://localhost:3000/say/hello

31. ZOMG! What happened?created "SayController"

32. app/controllers/say_controller.rb