h1. Beginners tutorial in Ruby on Rails

This material has been prepared for a charity tutorial for the "Scottish Ruby Conference":http://scottishrubyconference.com to benefit the "Children’s Hospice Association of Scotland":http://www.chas.org.uk/

You can donate at the "JustGiving":http://www.justgiving.com/src2010 site

h2. Examples

All examples are based on a simple project portfolio application

A basic scaffold generated app

basic manually created app

The manual app, with improved CSS[1], and separate admin area (with login) for managing content

Same app, making use of gems/plugins:

Victor Gumayunov's custom-err-msg[2] plugin: to improve the wording of error messages Thoughtbot's Paperclip gem[3]: to attach a screenshot

fn1. "Yahoo YUI reset":http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/ and "Yahoo YUI fonts":http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/fonts/ alongside author's own basic stylesheet

fn2. "custom-err-msg plugin":http://github.com/gumayunov/custom-err-msg

fn3. "Paperclip":http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip