There have been many extravagant claims made about Rails. For example, an article in OnLAMP.com1 claimed that “you could develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you could with a typical Java framework...” The article then went on to show how to install Rails and Ruby on a PC and build a working ‘scaffold’ application with virtually no coding. While this is impressive, ‘real’ web developers know that this is smoke and mirrors. ‘Real’ applications aren’t as simple as that. What’s actually going on beneath the surface? How hard is it to go on and build ‘real’ applications?

This is the second part of the "Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited" tutorial

One week experience of learning Ruby on Rails by Ron Jeffries

This article will walk you through modeling a Ruby application, learning various constructs of MongoDB, and then integrating it into Rails and Sinatra. In this article by Gautam Rege, the author of Ruby and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide, we will cover: Modeling the application data. Mapping it to MongoDB objects. Creating embedded and relational objects. Fetching objects. How does this differ from the SQL way? Take a brief look at a Map/Reduce, with an example.

This article details the components of Rails and shows you how it works.

Ruby on Rails is increasingly showing up as the base framework for sophisticated and scalable applications of medium and large size. Because Ruby is an interpreted language, to bend Rails to your will, you will need to employ many different caching strategies. This article explores the caching strategies that are available to you.

Real life experience on programming with Ruby on Rails by Ron Jeffries

With configuration, installation, and the use of Hadoop in single- and multi-node architectures under your belt, you can now turn to the task of developing applications within the Hadoop infrastructure. This article explores the Hadoop APIs and data flow and demonstrates their use with a simple mapper and reducer application.

Suppose you are a C++ developer and you need to do some prototyping quickly in Ruby. When you pick up a Ruby reference book like the Pickaxe or browse the Ruby site, you see familiar constructs like class declaration, support for threads, and exception handling. Just when you thought you knew how Ruby works, you realize that concurrency in your Ruby code is not behaving like Boost threads, catch and throw are not what they seem, and others have used something called self all over the place in their Ruby script.

This book is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. Use Ruby, and you'll write better code, be more productive, and enjoy programming more. These are bold claims, but we think that after reading this book you'll agree with them. And we have the experience to back up this belief.