Rails Wiki

• Getting Started
• Overview of the Ruby language and Rails framework
  • Basic Tenets of Ruby on Rails
• Installation
• First Application
• Upgrading Rails
  • Updating Rails and Ruby Gem
  • Upgrading an app to a newer Rails
• Understanding the Ecosystem
  • Gems
  • Plugins
  • Glossary of Terms
• Tips for Beginners
• Text Editors

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite
• IBM DB2
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• Sybase
• Firebird

The following databases may be used with Rails but are not supported by ActiveRecord.

• CouchDB

• Apache + mongrel
• Apache + Passenger
• GlassFish (and JRuby)
• Nginx + mongrel
• Nginx + thin
• Nginx + Passenger
• Complete tutorial: Apache + REE + Passenger on Amazon Cloud (AWS - EC2 + EBS) + automated backups with snapshots
• Complete tutorial: VPS Setup Nginx + Passenger

• Capistrano - dwell gem, railsmachine gem, etc.
• Vlad the Deployer

• Test::Unit
• RSpec
• Cucumber
• Webrat – A Ruby browser simulator for integration/acceptance testing
• Extensions: Shoulda for Test::Unit and RSpec and Remarkable for RSpec
• Selenium is an open-source tool for testing AJAX applications, including those written in Rails. Test scripts can be written in Ruby to run on RSpec and Test::Unit. Sauce Labs provides cloud-hosted Selenium instances.

• Browser profile
• Exception notifications
• New Relic
• Nagios Rails
• Request log analyzer
• Search logs with syslog-ng and Paglo

• Rails 2.3 - March 15, 2009 - release notes
• Rails 2.2 - November 21, 2008 - release notes

• Answers provided by the Rails team (pending)

• Authentication and Authorization
• Background Processes and Cron Jobs
  • Starling + Workling
  • RabbitMQ + Workling
• Database relationships - creation, modification
  • Basic relationships
  • Polymorphic relationships
  • Eager loading
  • Table aliasing and legacy naming
• Forms
  • Basic Forms
  • Multiple Select (for has_many and habtm relations)
  • Interacting with Plural Models in the Same Form
• Localization
• Mailers
• Pagination with will_paginate
• SCM
  • Git
• Security
  • Prevent SQL injection
  • Proper scoping
  • SSL with ssl_requirement
• Templates
  • RJS
  • Haml and SASS
• Time Zones
• ImageMagick / RMagick

• Authentication
• Auto-Completion
• Calendars
• CMS
• e-Commerce
• File Attachments
• Full-text Search
• Generating PDFs
• Geolocation
• Migrations
• Rails Application Templates (new)
• Scaffolding
• Template languages
• Testing

• Development Firms
• Rails Web Hosts
• Rails Jobs

• Initializer
• Requirements for to_model
• ActionController
  • Adding Render Options
  • The AbstractController Rendering API

• Rails 3 'ready' gems and plugins
• Rails 3 articles & resources

• User Groups

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• Style guidelines when writing pages
• Naming conventions when creating pages
• Translation guidelines

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