Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, Fourth Edition

Chapter 1. From Zero to Deploy

Welcome to Ruby on Rails^™ Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to develop custom web applications, and our tool of choice is the popular Ruby on Rails web framework. In addition to focusing on general principles of web development (rather than on Rails specifically), the Ruby on Rails^™ Tutorial teaches the broader skill of technical sophistication (Box 1.1), which is a principal theme developed by the Learn Enough to Be Dangerous tutorials.¹ In particular, the Learn Enough introductory sequence consists of a series of tutorials that are suitable as prerequisites to the Ruby on Rails^™ Tutorial, starting with Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous,² which (unlike ...