This document is a presentation on Ruby on Rails (RoR). It introduces RoR as a popular web application framework written in Ruby. Some key principles of RoR include don't repeat yourself (DRY), convention over configuration (COC), and model-view-controller (MVC). The presentation provides a brief history of RoR and recommends additional resources like documentation, guides, courses, and books to learn more about RoR and Ruby. It suggests literature for both English and Russian readers to learn testing and specifications.

1. Ruby on Rails
#1 First look
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2. Why we talk about RoR?
• It's popular
• Plug and play
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3. What is it?
• RoR is a web application development framework
written in the Ruby language
• RoR like DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
• RoR like COC (Convention Over Configuration)
• RoR like REST (organizing your application
around resources and standard HTTP verbs is the
fastest way to go)
• RoR like MVC
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4. Little bit of history
• Created by Danish programmer
for 37signals like managment tool
in July 2004 .
• 2005 shared first commit
rights for comunity
• December 2005 ‑ 1.0
• December 2007 ‑ 2.0
• August 2010 ‑ 3.0
• August 2012 ‑ 3.2.8 (last stable) David Heinemeier Hansson
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5. Ok, but what is Ruby?
• Look to second presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/helper2424/ruby‑on‑
rails232
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6. Links
• http://rubyonrails.org/ ‑ official site
• http://www.rubyonrails.ru/ ‑ RoR site by russian
comunity
• http://www.ruby‑lang.org/en/ ‑ Ruby official
site
• http://37signals.com/ ‑ official site RoR
developers
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier
_Hansson ‑ David Heinemeier Hansson
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7. Links too
• https://github.com/rails/rails/ ‑ RoR repository
• http://api.rubyonrails.org/ ‑ documentation for
last stable version
• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ ‑ guides for last
version
• http://railsforzombies.org/ ‑ funny courses fro
beginers
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8. Literature in RU
• Sam Ruby ,Dave Thomas ,Havid Heinemeier
Hansson "Agile Web Development with Rails":
good book, but for version 3.1
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9. Literature in EN
• Sam Ruby ,Dave Thomas ,Havid Heinemeier
Hansson "Agile Web Development with Rails":
good book and for version 3.2
• Obie Fernandez "The Rails 3 Way" : good book, It
has rails mechanism description, read after "Agile
Web Development with Rails"
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10. Additional (must read) literature
• David Chelimsky "The RSpec Book" : Ruby TDD
• Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy "The Cucumber
Book": how use cucumber, tests ad specification
right
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