Ruby on Rails: An introduction - Who am I?

Maciej Mensfeld

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Maciej Mensfeld

RoR: An introduction

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senior ruby developer@araneo.pllead ruby developer@wordwatch.com

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Please…

• …ask me to slow down, if I speak to quickly;• …ask me again, if I forget;

• …ask questions, if anything i say is not clear;• …feel free to share your own observations

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RoR: An introduction

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RoR: What is Ruby on Rails?

•Full stack web application framework•Written in the Ruby programming language•Growing community since 2004•Open Source and Free•Focused on developer productivity and getting the job done – fast!

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RoR: Why Ruby on Rails? Lot of frameworks exists on the market and a lot of

programming languages for the web but…

Rails leads

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RoR: Why Ruby on Rails? •Rails give the developers a real productivity boost for developing web applications•Because of Ruby and domain specific languages•Convention over Configuration•Productivity boost!

Really faster?

3-4 times faster than

dev with zend

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RoR: Why Ruby on Rails?

Designed to make it easier to develop, deploy, and maintain web applications

Design with Model-View-ControllerAlso based on DRY concept

Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY)Every piece of knowledge should be expressed in just one place

Ruby on Rails: An introduction – Who uses RoR?

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I do! ;) (but not only…)

and thousands of other…

Ruby on Rails: An introduction – The framework

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Lil bit bout Rails structure

The Framework

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Lil bit bout Rails structure

Try it out!

cd ~rails new my_blog…(output):create create README create Rakefile create config.ru create .gitignore create Gemfile create app create app/assets/images/rails.png…

To much stuff! WTF?!

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Lil bit bout Rails structure

Fortunately you don’t need to care about this :)

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MVC

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Rails MVC

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Models ;)

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ActiveRecord models

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Models should be…

Fat! Fat! Fat!!!!

Fat! Fat! Fat!!!!

Fat! Fat! Fat!!!!

Fat! Fat! Fat!!!!

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But… don’t piss off Vegeta ;)

Make fat models and thin controllers or Vegeta will

visit U…

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ActionController

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ActionController – be Restful

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ActionController – be Restful

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ActionView

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ActionView templates

ERB – templates with HTM and Ruby code – used to

display dinamic stuff from prepared by controllers

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Enough theory, let’s start the magic!

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Generate Rails scaffold…

Try it out!

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Start rails server to check if it works

Try it out!

Go to http://localhost:3000/

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Yay! It works!

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Creating Posts

Try it out!

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Creating Posts

Try it out!

Yeah it works but… we can create empty posts :( not good :(

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Protect create/update/destroy

Try it out!

Our blog works but anyone can add, edit and remove posts… shitty :/

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Live long and prosper!

Presented by:

Maciej Mensfeld

maciej@mensfeld.pldev.mensfeld.pl

github.com/mensfeld