Ruby on Rails

I was considering doing a short Ruby on Rails tutorial, however I've decided to just share my findings from various internet searches.

RubyonRails
A great place to start! This particular link summarizes all the software requirements required to run and develop ruby on rails.

Restful Authentication Plug-in
A great plug-in to automatically generate a User authentication system and session manager.

Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Curtis Hibbs of ONLamp.com offers an excellent intro to RoR.

Rails API
Rails Documentation.

Rails Forum
This a great site to post topics on coding issues. I've found it very helpful as you can post up your own code and get some useful advice from Rails experts.

Wiki Ruby on Rails
The community driven Rails documentation. This contains a great intro to Rails, countless tutorials, HowTos and a lot of other useful articles.

Railscasts
This great site contains lots of useful screencasts for all sorts of Rails tutorials.


Recommended Books

Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson. (2006). Agile Web Development with Rails.
Written by the founder of RubyonRails and widely considered to be the first book to pick up when starting rails.

Barry Bud. (2007). Ruby on Rails for Dummies
Exactly what it says, a complete walk through starting right at the beginning.

Patrick Lenz. (2007). Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Applicatoins.
A great book that goes into a lot of details about the Rails framework and the Ruby language. Great read!

Chad Fowler. (2006). Rails Recipes.
After you get a strong grasp of what Rails is about, this book will turn you into an expert with some great recipes.

Web Application

Web Application Framework

A web application framework is a set of software tools and libraries that are designed to support the development of dynamic websites and web applications (Wikipedia 2008)

Ruby on Rails

Ruby is a dynamic open source programming language which focuses on simplicity and productivity. Rails is the open source web framework which allows rapid development. Coding in Ruby on Rails is more rewarding than other languages because programmers can achieve almost instant gratification with very little coding.

Valuable

Welcome to BlogValuable

Currently, I am undecided on what to write here. This blog doesn't have purpose or meaning yet, but I hope as time goes on and more content is uploaded, I will find a purpose. So the journey begins with choosing a name, and i've chosen one I am quite fond of. Valuable.

What is it?
Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.

Why?
If something has no value, then does it have any purpose?