Friday, July 25, 2008

Top ten resources to build RoR based enterprise solution

These are essentially the ten resources you would need to build your first ruby on rails based enterprise solution. Considering you a total newbie, these will give you all the required help, information and mentoring from level alpha to level omega.   


  1. Agile web development with rails - book by Dave Thomas. The ultimate source for everything you need in the first year with RoR. It’s got everything from the basic rhymes to the most complex enterprise application formulae. You won’t think it was costly after reading it. Together with The Ruby CookBook. it equips you with complete armor.

  2. Try Ruby online - very basic ruby hands-on guide to showcase the power of ruby.
 
  3. Simplest ruby ebook : The first steps to learning. Just read it and you should find yourself comfortable with ruby code in less than a day.  

  4. Another refreshing Rails guide to deal with initial learning curve… all this is obviously good only if you are not reading reference number 1.

  5. Screencasts and self learning videos should sharpen your learning curves and teach you those fine tit-bits and caveats.

  6. Ruby on Rails official documentation. The best technical help you will get while learning and working all by yourself. You will need this on every step.

  7. The ruby on rails link library. All the best online resources for ruby on rails are listed and categorized into better heads like introduction, promotion, performance, security.

  8. Plugins Directory:- A nice directory of all the available plug-ins that you will want to use for your application. It lists the plugins with their user ratings.

  9. Rails Performance Issues and improvement :- Stefan Kaes is great when he talks about ruby and rails performance issues. There are more website that will deal with different issues in different ways, so you can help yourself, or refer rails library. And don’t forget this nice compilation somewhere down on this page. :-)

  10.Security issues in ruby on rails based apps are best dealt here. So if you have reached the stage where you need to think about saving your web product from cross-site scripting attacks, just go through this website and you find answers to all your concerns. If not send me a note.   

This top-ten is not listed according to priority, they are sorted according how you will need them one by one during your course of constructing a RoR based application.   

Posted by Ujjwal Trivedi at 22:04:45
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