The document discusses Ruby on Rails, including an overview of Rails, the respond_to method for specifying response formats, and templates for generating those formats. It notes that Rails is an open-source web framework using the Model-View-Control pattern to develop database-backed web applications in a pure-Ruby environment.

1. Rails2’s template
(respond_to method)
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ihower@handlino.com

2. about me
• (a.k.a ihower)
http://ihower.idv.tw/blog/
• (Handlino)
• http://registrano.com

3. agenda
• Ruby on Rails overview
• respond_to (what’s format you want)
• template (how to generate format)

4. Rails Overview
• an open-source web framework for developing
database-backed web applications
• Model-View-Control pattern
• a pure-Ruby development environment,
from the Ajax in the view, to the request and
response in the controller, to the domain model
wrapping the database.