Automatically back up your entire web server files and databases to Amazon S3
Christina Warren has a comprehensive and excellent tutorial on creating a Ruby script to back up your entire web server, including databases, and upload them directly to an Amazon S3 bucket. The tutorial is geared toward Media Temple, but I imagine could be adapted to other hosts. She also did a screencast demo demonstrating it [...]
DevShed.com: Ruby-on-Rails: Understanding the Basics of Active Record
Ruby on Rails handles data manipulation with the Active Record, which provides an Object Relational Mapping framework. If these sound a little like foreign words to you, keep reading; you’ll find that the way RoR handles ORM is a little different, and perhaps easier, than you might see it handled with other languages. Data and [...]
DevShed.com: Getting Started with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails differs from other technologies in the aspect that, while other enterprise technologies give more stress on configuration, RoR stresses convention, thus eliminating the need for lengthy configuration files based on XML. The base of RoR being Ruby gives it one more advantage, the advantage of working with a Very High Level Language. [...]
Developer Works: Fast-track your Web apps with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is a recent entry into the world of Web application development that is rapidly gaining mindshare, even while still in beta versions. Rails succeeds by automating the creation of the most common types of Web applications while not straightjacketing you if you want to add custom or atypical requirements. Moreover, compared to [...]
OnLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Maybe you’ve heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you’d like to give it a try, but you don’t know anything about Ruby or Rails. This article steps through the development of a web application using Rails. It won’t teach you how to program in Ruby, but [...]
SitePoint.com: Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner
Make your mark in the brave new world of Ruby on Rails! In this action-packed adventure, Patrick provides rock-solid foundations in object oriented programming principles, and a detailed explanation of Ruby syntax. After this comprehensive tour, you’ll plunge into the mysterious depths of the Rails framework. You’ll emerge enlightened and ready to chart new web [...]
