Jason Morrison January 19, 2006 Rochester on Rails Ruby on Rails Sustainable Productivity for Web Application Development
History
July 2004 David Heineimeier Hansson
Extracted from Basecamp
 
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Hundreds of contributors Thousands of revisions, tickets, and patches
Rails 1.0 December 13, 2005
 
What is Rails?
Full Stack
Web Application Framework
It’s all Ruby!
(okay, except one file)
(here it is) database.yml development: adapter: sqlite dbfile: db/dev.db test: adapter: sqlite dbfile: db/test.db production: adapter: sqlite dbfile: db/prod.db
Everything else is Ruby!
ActiveRecord
ActionPack
ERb views
ActionWebService
ActionMailer
Unit Testing
AJAX Helpers
Key Concepts
DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself
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Convention over configuration
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Less code!
Order.hbm.xml 01 <hibernate-mapping> 02 <class name=&quot;models.Order&quot; table=&quot;ORDERS&quot; 03 dynamic-update=&quot;true&quot; dynamic-insert=&quot;false&quot;> 06 <id name=&quot;id&quot; column=&quot;id&quot; type=&quot;java.lang.Long&quot; 07 unsaved-value=&quot;null&quot;> 08 <generator class=&quot;identity&quot;/> 09 </id> 10 <set name=&quot;items&quot; lazy=&quot;false&quot; inverse=&quot;false&quot; 11 cascade=&quot;none&quot; sort=&quot;unsorted&quot;> 12 <key column=&quot;id&quot;/> 13 <one-to-many class=&quot;models.Item&quot;/> 14 </set> 15 <property name=&quot;name&quot; type=&quot;java.lang.String&quot; 16 update=&quot;true&quot; insert=&quot;true&quot; 17 access=&quot;property&quot; column=&quot;name&quot;/> 18 </class> 19 </hibernate-mapping>
Order.java 01 public class Order { 02 private Set items; 03 private String name; 04 private Long id; 05 06 public Long getId() { return id;} 07 public void setId(Long id) { this.id = id;} 08 public Set getItems() { return items;} 09 public void setItems(Set items) { this.items = items; } 10 public String getName() { return name; } 11 public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; } 12 }
order.rb 01 class Order < ActiveRecord::Base 02 has_many :items 03 end
Rails is expressive
class Project < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :portfolio has_one :project_manager has_many :milestones has_and_belongs_to_many :categories validates_presence_of :name, :description validates_acceptance_of :non_disclosure_agreement validates_uniqueness_of :key end
#We’re slashing prices, all books are now half off! Product.find( :all, :conditions => “kind=‘book’” ) do |product| product.price *= 0.5 product.save end
Increases Programmer Rails increases programmer…
Increases Programmer Rails increases programmerhappiness!
How does it fit together?
Model View Controller
Model View Controller ActiveRecord ActionPack } }
 
Ready, set, code!

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