Ruby by Example

Chapter Recap

What was new in this chapter?

• Package management

• Installing RubyGems

• Installing, updating, and querying specific gem package files

• Rails basics

• Installing Rails

• The MVC pattern

• ORM basics

• Viewing your first Rails application

• Generating Models and Controllers

• The index View used as the default View

• Distinguishing instance methods from class methods with #

• HTML stub files for Views

With just that information, you could create some interesting applications that do a variety of dynamic tasks. However, the real power of Rails stems from its ability to access a database and manipulate content. That will be the focus of our next and final chapter.