Introduction to Rails

Abhishek Yadav

@h6165

Topics covered

• Philosophy
• Relevance and challenges
• Static-like website using Rails

Philosophy

• Opinionated
• Cover the most common use cases
• Convention over configuration
• Use the power of Ruby: for expressiveness

Relevance, challenges

• Popular framework since 2005
• Competitors: Node.js, Django, Elixir-Phoenix, Php-Laravel, Java-J2EE, ASP.Net
• Widely used by startups
• Currently competitive in Job market

Challenges:

• Learning curve
• Concurrency in Ruby
• Not hot anymore

Static-like website using Rails

rails generate controller home hello

• Change the view file 
• Add instance variable, use it in view
• Add a loop in the view