Rails is a full-stack framework. It ships with all the tools needed to build amazing web apps on both the front and back end with strong conventions that keep your agents from producing a huge, unmaintainable mess.
This guide covers getting up and running with Ruby on Rails.After reading this guide, you will know: How to install Rails, create a new Rails application, and connect your application to a database. The general layout of a Rails application. The basic principles of MVC (Model, View, Controller) and RESTful design. How to quickly generate the starting pieces of a Rails application. How to ...
Ruby on Rails Guides (v8.1.3) These are the new guides for Rails 8.1 based on v8.1.3. These guides are designed to make you immediately productive with Rails, and to help you understand how all of the pieces fit together.
Welcome to Rails ¶ ↑ What’s Rails? ¶ ↑ Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Understanding the MVC pattern is key to understanding Rails. MVC divides your application into three layers: Model, View, and Controller, each with a specific responsibility. Model ...
This guide is an introduction to Active Record.After reading this guide, you will know: How Active Record fits into the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm. What Object Relational Mapping and Active Record patterns are and how they are used in Rails. How to use Active Record models to manipulate data stored in a relational database. Active Record schema naming conventions. The concepts of ...
- Overview The Rails command line is a powerful part of the Ruby on Rails framework. It allows you to quickly start a new application by generating boilerplate code (that follows Rails conventions). This guide includes an overview of Rails commands that allow you to manage all aspects of your web application, including the database. You can get a list of commands available to you, which will ...