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Ruby On Rails Screencast For Beginners

Isn’t it funny how most “introduction to Ruby on Rails” screencasts are overly simplistic, and rely on generators like scaffolding? The teacher typically follows up the tutorial by stating that most Rails developer don’t use scaffolding generators. Well that’s not much help then!

This is a really useful Nettuts screencast, every rails enthusiast would love to watch.

The topics covered in the 30 minutes screencast are:

Create models and generators
Use test-driven development to plan and test an application’s features
Work with ActiveRecord
Autotest with Guard
Use Rspec and Capybara to simulate the user.
Create partials
Take advantage of Flash notices

Filed under: Ruby on Rails Tutorials

Posted by Jiby John

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