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                                                             This article is not intended  
                                
                                                                  
                                  The Rails framework takes  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Here's a quick Howto on  
                                
                                                                  
                                  IBM DeveloperWorks has a  
                                
                                                                
                                to be a booster piece for  
                                
                                                                  
                                  most of the headache away  
                                
                                                                  
                                  setting up Ruby on Rails for  
                                
                                                                  
                                  helpful howto on how to  
                                
                                                                
                                Rails nor is it an expose.  
                                
                                                                  
                                  from developing these  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Windows.  
                                
                                                                  
                                  bring the worlds of Ruby on  
                                
                                                                
                                It’s simply an  
                                
                                                                  
                                  relationships and almost  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Rails and your DB2 framework  
                                
                                                                
                                introduction to the  
                                
                                                                  
                                  entirely eliminates the need  
                                
                                                                  
                                  together. From the article:  
                                
                                                                
                                technology. It contains both  
                                
                                                                  
                                  to write low-level queries  
                                
                                                                  
                                  'Because Rails emerged from  
                                
                                                                
                                praise and criticism. At  
                                
                                                                  
                                  to your database. If you've  
                                
                                                                  
                                  the open source world, until  
                                
                                                                
                                times the criticism might  
                                
                                                                  
                                  spent time writing those  
                                
                                                                  
                                  recently you had to use  
                                
                                                                
                                appear a bit heavy handed  
                                
                                                                  
                                  queries, Rails' ActiveRecord  
                                
                                                                  
                                  MySQL or PostgreSQL to work  
                                
                                                                
                                (especially to Rails  
                                
                                                                  
                                  will make sense, but for  
                                
                                                                  
                                  with it. Now that IBM has  
                                
                                                                
                                enthusiasts), but  
                                
                                                                  
                                  those of you who are just  
                                
                                                                  
                                  released a DB2 adapter for  
                                
                                                                
                                don’t be fooled.  
                                
                                                                  
                                  getting started this can be  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Rails, it's possible to  
                                
                                                                
                                Using any Web application  
                                
                                                                  
                                  confusing.  
                                
                                                                  
                                  write efficient Web  
                                
                                                                
                                framework is going to be  
                                
                                                                  
                                  applications on top of your  
                                
                                                                
                                tricky, whether  
                                
                                                                  
                                  existing DB2 database  
                                
                                                                
                                it’s J2EE,  
                                
                                                                  
                                  investment.'  
                                
                                                                
                                ASP.NET, or PHP. In the long  
                                
                                                                  
                                  run, you can be a lot more  
                                
                                                                  
                                  productive with Rails than  
                                
                                                                  
                                  you can be with many other  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Web application development  
                                
                                                                  
                                  platforms, but it takes time  
                                
                                                                  
                                  to learn the ropes.  
                                
                                                                  
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                                                             Test-driven development is A  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Good Thing. This article  
                                
                                                                  
                                  takes the example of a  
                                
                                                                  
                                  simple user authentication  
                                
                                                                  
                                  system controller and  
                                
                                                                  
                                  explain how to do test  
                                
                                                                  
                                  driven development using  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Rails.  
                                
                                                                  
                                  Date: Aug, 31 2006  |