Happiness with Ruby on Rails

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What is it?

• Nothing new... Well sort of.

• MVC

• Convention over configuration

• Ruby front to back

The three A’s

• Activerecord

• Activesupport

• Actionpack

Activerecord

• Rich models

• No XML configuration files

• DSL to describe model relationships

• DSL to describe validation

REST

• URI’s become resources http://www.new-bamboo.co.uk/users/234

• POST - Create

• PUT - Update

• DELETE - Destroy

• GET - Show/Edit/Index

Routes

/users/users/2

/users/2;edit/users/2/account

Routes

• users_url (GET) - Index

• user_url(id) (GET) - Show

• user_url(id) (DELETE) - Destroy

• user_url(id) (PUT) - Update

So what?

RJS

Beautiful testing

Test::Unit

RSpec

So what’s the difference?

• Vocabulary

• Hopefully a transition in thinking

It’s Ruby that makes me happy:)