1. Just installed Ruby and Rails on my MacOSX Leopard. The current version of rails is 1.2.6. I wanted to upgrade using gem update –system but it seems like taking forever.. So I did a manual install of ruby, rubygems then rails..

  2. The tutorial that I followed was from http://hivelogic.com/articles/2008/02/ruby-rails-leopard

Installation Summary

2.1 ruby

wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p286.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ruby-1.8.6-p286.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

2.2 rubygems

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/45905/rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
tar -zxvf rubygems-1.3.1.tgz
ruby setup.rb

2.3 rails

gem install -V rails

2.4 other gems

gem install rubygems-update
gem install mongrel
gem install capistrano
gem install postgres
gem install builder

  1. Browsed the first few pages of the hilarious http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby

  2. Went for a book. Found Simply Rails 2.0 on Boox24x7 and Safari. Added that to my shelf and read chapters 1 – 5 on my first night.

  3. Was able to setup database configuration in config/database.yml using Postgres. I have yet to study how oracle works.

  4. rake db:migrate is a convenient way of building your database schema without using SQL. Simply Rails 2.0:Chapter 5:Generating a Model introduced inserting records using script/console

  5. URL Helpers for Story Resource
    stories_path /stories
    new_story_path /stories/new
    story_path(@story) /stories/1
    edit_story_path(@story) /stories/1/edit

Remember to define the route in config/routes.rb
map.resources :users, :categories

  1. Naming Conventions
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Variables – lowercase letters and words separated by underscores.
i.e name, country_of_origin

DB Table and Column names should follow convention is always pluralised.
i.e users

Classes and Modules – no underscores and each word is capitalized
i.e User, UserCategories