Ruby on Rails is well-suited for startups because it allows for quick development and flexibility, happy developers, and getting to market quickly. Rails follows conventions over configurations, MVC pattern, and supports CRUD operations and database configuration through ActiveRecord. It also enables agile development. Examples of startups built on Rails include Suggestica, Ipolipo, and Atuitu.

1. Ruby on Rails relevance to Startups Sumanth Krishna. A

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3. Startups Startups require happy developers Startups require quick ramp-up Startups require flexibility in the code Startups require us to listen first In to Market @ the earliest What startups often don’t need

4. To name Few http://www.suggestica.com/ http://www.ipolipo.com/ http://www.atuitu.com/

5. Rails – In 10 points

6. Rails – In 10 points Don’t Repeat Yourself Convention Over Configuration Model View Controller Agile Development Configuring DB ActiveRecord (Built-in ORM support)‏ CRUD – operations Generators Migrations Partials

7. Convention over Configuration In models

8. MVC

9. Agile Development

10. DB Configuration

11. ActiveRecord ORM concept Classes Tables Objects Rows Properties Columns

12. CRUD Create Read Update Delete Without using SQL syntax directly

13. Rails – In 10 points Don’t Repeat Yourself Convention Over Configuration Model View Controller Agile Development Configuring DB ActiveRecord (Built-in ORM support)‏ CRUD – operations Generators Migrations Partials

14. Dave’s Likes

16. Folder Structure

17. Few Resources

18. FAQ

19. More... Ruby on Rails workshop on 8 th March, 2008. www.twincling.org http://sumanthtechsavvy.blogspot.com

20. Thanks Ramesh Rajamani www.techmasala.com Saifi Khan www.twincling.org Nanda Gopal www.atuitu.com Hareesh Kumar scintillator.blogspot.com