Ruby on Rails

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 features that make it more useful than other web scripting languages. Now you can use eRuby to create robust web applications and websites.

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 this powerful data structure.

SimpleTicket is an open source trouble ticket system written using Ruby on Rails. It boasts the latest features found in today’s rich web applications such as Ajax.

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 might appear a bit heavy handed (especially to Rails enthusiasts), but don’t be fooled. Using any Web application framework is going to be tricky, whether it’s J2EE, ASP.NET, or PHP. In the long run, you can be a lot more productive with Rails than you can be with many other Web application development platforms, but it takes time to learn the ropes.

One of the coolest things I ran across in RJS was the delay method. This delay method will do just that and delay a number of seconds. So lets say you need to highlight something that was just added to the page after the user submits it.

Typo is a lean weblogging engine powered by rails. It supports XMLRPC posting, ping/trackback, comments, textile, markdown, categories, all common exports, fulltext search and so on.

Onyx is an open source Ruby on Rails based image gallery. It is designed to be clean and intuitive, flexible, customizable, and quick. Features Customizable Themes(more coming soon) Organize Images by Category/Tag Secure Admin area Upload your images from your computer or a direct URL Built-In RSS feed generator Cool Image Viewer & Slidehow Comments for each Image

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 a great web scripting language. Follow this tutorial and you can use Ruby on your Windows IIS web server by setting up eRuby to process *.rhtml pages.

Here's a quick Howto on setting up Ruby on Rails for Windows.

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.

Installation of ruby on rails with Apache 2.2 and Mongrel on Fedora Core 6.

The SaaS Rails Kit is a software as a service "starter kit" that provides a pain-free way to add subscription management, recurring billing, and credit card management functionality to any Rails app, so developers can quickly build membership-based web services using Ruby on Rails. Features: -No local credit card storage. - Automated billing script runs nightly for anniversary billing. - Automated notification and retry of failed renewals. - Free accounts and one-month trials are supported. - Optionally collect payment information for paid accounts at account creation. - Easy customization of plan levels — pricing and custom limits. - Ability to tweak limits and fees per account. - Self-serve account creation. - Self-serve account upgrades and downgrades, with limit checking to prevent downgrading to a plan for which the account does not qualify, based on the plan limits. - Account lookups by subdomain. - SSL protection of account creation and login.

RailFrog is a user-friendly, open-source web site deployment and content management system built with Rails; producing well structured and standards-compliant pages with Web 2.0 goodness.

Ruby XML library for parsing and creating XML. Advanced API for XML compression, XML encryption, and handling XML binary content. Fully internationalized to handle any language / character encoding.

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. This method also works for pagination of find_by_sql queries and even supports find_by_sql with eager loading!