April 2009
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
12h 55m
English
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1.7. Summary
This first chapter provided a general introduction and overview of Ruby on Rails, highlighting part of its story, philosophy, and relevance to the current Web development world. Step-by-step instructions to set up a complete development environment as well as a quick glance at common editors completed the chapter.
Chapter 2 debunks common misconceptions, explores the concepts behind MVC, takes a closer look at the philosophical principles embraced by Rails, and finally, provides a macroscopic analysis of the differences between this and the ASP.NET world.