Tips and Tutorials

Rails Photo Gallery
This article contains step-by-step tutorial for creating photo gallery in Ruby On Rails -- basically a list of jpeg images with uploading/editing support. Command-line ImageMagick tools are used to ge...
Ruby User Guide
Developing Ruby on Rails applications requires an ability to program in the Ruby language. This guide, written by the creator of Ruby, provides an easy to follow guide to the Ruby programming language...
Wonderful Ruby on Rails
This will show how to validate your fields, by adding the lines of code into your controller. Very easy to use and duplicate in your ROR application....
How to allow some safe HTML in Rails projects
This article contains simple Ruby function ae_some_html which allows usage of basic HTML tags and converts everything else to entity-escaped HTML code....
Ruby on Rails or CakePHP
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. Ruby on rails is awesome. It is also an easy to language to learn. Thou...
Installation of Ruby on Rails in Fedora Core 6
Installation of ruby on rails with Apache 2.2 and Mongrel on Fedora Core 6....
SEO on Rails
Tips and Tricks for improving your RoR app so it is search engine friendly. ...
eRuby: SUSIE a Simple Photo Gallery in Ruby
SUSIE is a simple image gallery that is an opensource eRuby application. It is interesting because it shows how Ruby, a powerful and fully object oriented programming language can be used to do the ti...
eRuby: How to use Ruby CGI and ERB templating for Web Pages
Ruby is a great language to use to create a dynamic website. Here's how to use it to do CGI scripting. Using eRuby ERB templating to seperate the HTML from the script makes CGI a perfect alternative t...
Rails and SQL queries
Ruby on Rails is Model-View-Controller web-application framework. Rails uses ActiveRecord database abstraction classes to work with SQL tables. However, sometimes it is more convenient to work with pl...
150+ Ruby on Rails Tutorials
Over the last couple of months, I have collected over 150 Ruby on Rails links at Top-Ten-Tutorials.com...
Faster pagination in Rails
RoR's default pagination methods have a number of bottlenecks. In this guide you will learn how to use paginating_find to create fast, reusable and good looking pagination code for your projects. Th...
Set up Ruby on Rails in Windows
Here's a quick Howto on setting up Ruby on Rails for Windows. ...
Rails Best Practices, Tips and Tricks
Because Rails is a young framework, I thought it would be helpful to write up what I consider best practices when coding with it both for my new coworkers and the web at large. Here’s my cur...
Beginning Relationships in Rails
The Rails framework takes most of the headache away from developing these relationships and almost entirely eliminates the need to write low-level queries to your database. If you've spent time writin...
How To Do Test Driven Development In Rails
Test-driven development is A Good Thing. This article takes the example of a simple user authentication system controller and explain how to do test driven development using Rails....
The Basics of Ruby Arrays
Ruby has many exciting object oriented features, but a large percentage of your code will revolve around arrays. In this valuable tutorial, we’re going to show you some tips and tricks for t...
Understanding Action Views in Ruby on Rails
This article covers the basic services provided by the ActionView. The ActionView helps you present data to your users. Keep reading to learn some terminology and study an example application....
Understanding Controllers in Ruby-on-Rails
This tutorial will focus on the ActionController. The first sections will cover the services provided by ActionController and the techniques to access them. The final section will provide insight into...
Introduction to Ruby for Mac OS X
Applie included Ruby with the Jaguar OS. In this article, Jim explains how to use this pure object oriented scripting language by exploring Ruby's features....
Fast-track your Web apps with Ruby on Rails
This article details the components of Rails and shows you how it works.Rails gives you an extremely quick way to develop flexible Web applications; this introduction just barely touched on what it's ...
Distributing Rails Applications
In this tutorial, we'll go through the following steps: Setup the environment Create the SQLite database Develop the Rails application Create the RBA (= Ruby archive) from the application with Tar...
Get On Track with Ruby on Rails
Ruby is an interpreted scripting language, just like Python and PHP. SitePoint's author Daniel Bogan take a look at the language and how it can be used in web development....
Ruby on Rails for DB2 developers
IBM DeveloperWorks has a helpful howto on how to bring the worlds of Ruby on Rails and your DB2 framework together. From the article: 'Because Rails emerged from the open source world, until recently ...
Ruby on Rails on Oracle: A Simple Tutorial
This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an expose. It’s simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both praise and criticism. At times the criticism...
Ruby on Rails on Oracle: A Simple Tutorial
This article is not intended to be a booster piece for Rails nor is it an expose. It’s simply an introduction to the technology. It contains both praise and criticism. At times the criticism...
Listing files in a directory with Rails
In a recent application I am building I needed to pull file names and directory names from a local directory. I searched all over the net for this and found nothing. After reviewing a few of rails bui...
eRuby: Getting Started with Ruby on the Web
How to setup a Windows development PC and a shared web host environment so you can start developing Ruby web applications in the same way you do PHP, embedded in HTML. Ruby is easy to learn and has fe...
eRuby: Getting Started with Ruby on Windows IIS
Yes, you can run Ruby on Windows and eRuby on Windows IIS web servers. Ruby has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks as languages like Perl or Python do. Ruby is also ...
eRuby: Using Ruby DBI for database connectivity
If you want create a dynamic web page that works on more than just MySQL then try Ruby DBI. Ruby DBI will help you create a single database interface for connecting your web application to multiple da...

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