Ruby on Rails™ 2.3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example

Chapter 1. From Zero to Deploy

Welcome to Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example. The goal of this book is to be the best and most up-to-date answer to the question, “If I want to learn web development with Ruby on Rails, where should I start?”¹ Although the Ruby on Rails web framework benefits from a wealth of learning resources—including books, blogs, and screencasts—many of them assume a substantial background in Rails. Ruby on Rails Tutorial is designed to give you this background. By the time you finish this book, you will have a solid foundation in Rails programming, ready to benefit from more advanced Rails resources.

Ruby on Rails Tutorial follows essentially the same approach as my previous Rails book,² teaching web development ...