This tutorial is intended for first-time users of Rails who want to build a small database-driven application. I’ve chosen to show the creation of a rather simple TODO list program, because it’s short, easy and can be useful. I’ll be using Rails version 0.9.1, with ActionPack 1.0.1, ActiveRecord 1.2.0 and ActionMailer 0.5. If you have any problems, email them to me. If you want information on the methods and classes used in this tutorial, you can vi ...

This brief tutorial is a start-to-finish example of the Model, View, and Controller required for a many-to-many relationship. This is a follow-along tutorial for a finance application so go ahead and create your rails app, configure your database.yml, and start your server.financeapplication so go ahead and create your rails app, configure your database.yml, and start your server.

I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone application. Since I never built a Rails application myself, I wasn't even sure if it was possible at all. That's why I decided to write this tutorial.

In this tutorial, we'll go through the following steps:

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