This tutorial provides an overview of all Rails features, from AJAX to Apache, demonstrating how development time can be significantly reduced. You will learn the capabilities of Rails, and be prepared to start developing your first applications.

Topics covered:

• Rails from 30,000ft
• ActiveRecord, Rails’ interface to databases
• Integrating legacy databases
• Unit testing
• Rails’ template language, RHTML
• Functional tests
• Laying out Rails applications
• Dynamic AJAX user interfaces
• Creating and consuming XML
• Performance issues and tuning
• Setting up your Rails development environment
• Deployment issues
• Rails plugins and enhancements

Through a tutorial packed with examples and demonstrations, delegates will gain first-hand experience of Rails development.

The tutorial will be taught by Matt Biddulph and Edd Dumbill, experienced software developers with several large-scale Rails projects under their belts.