LDAP and Authentication

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticateViaLdap

Without ActiveLDAP:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticateWithRubyNetLdap

Ruby Reference
http://www.digitalsanctum.com/ruby-reference/

Relational Data and Forms (has_many):
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TutorialRelationalForms

Visualizing Models:
http://visualizemodels.rubyforge.org/

TipSheet for Beginners:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/TipSheetForBeginners

Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en

Rake Rake Your Boat
http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/02/25/rake-rake-rake-your-boat

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* Install MySQL Database First

* Then make/install ruby
* Then make/install gems
* Otherwise your database.yml will be confused as to where the mysql.sock is,
  requiring a change to database.yml
  #socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Note: Rail's initial MySQL connector is evidently crappy so install the low
level one:

* Actually then you gotta install the damn MySQL Ruby library
 #  gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=`which mysql_config`
 (This should prevent the "Can't find /tmp/mysql.sock" error you may get.

 Find out where your socket is:

 mysql_config --socket

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Create your application skeleton and start the server:

rails path/to/your/new/application
cd path/to/your/new/application
ruby script/server

You're running Ruby on Rails! Follow the instructions on
http://localhost:3000.

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Then:

* Create your dev, test, and production database
* Modify database.yml
* Try your first rake

    % cd test
    % rake db:migrate
(This should work without issues)

* Startup your server again (tho this should still be running but just in
  case)

  % ruby script/server

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http://whatever.com/say/hello
	say -> controller
		hello -> action

Theory:

app/controllers - Controller classes - controller handles a web request from user
app/views - display HTML templates
	/layouts/
		application layout applies to everything in the application
app/models - wraps the data
	-> MVC: All data logic should be in models as much as possible, not the views or controllers

apps/helpers - helper classes

components/ DEPRECATED
config/ 		-> Application Configuration data
	environment.rb 		-> Application Configuration data

test/
lib/ shared code between model<->view<->controller
public/ htdocs 
script/ 
	plugin/
	runner/ 	cron jobs here, or handle incoming methods
	server/
tmp/ 			temp directory
log/			log directory
vendor/ 		third party directories (rake rails:freeze:gems; rake rails:unfreeze)

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Naming Conventions

Classes  : ClassOne
Variables: some_item
Files    : some_file_with_underscores

Database Column Types
	:binary, :boolean, :date, :datetime, :decimal, :float, :integer, :string, :text, :time, :timestamp
	:null => true|false, :limit => size, :default =>value

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Handy Cheatsheet

Create a new app:
	% rails app_name
	
ruby script/server

Controllers:
	ruby script/generate controller controller_name
	ruby script/generate controller store index # Create controller named "store" with "index" action

	ruby script/destroy controller store # Destroys the store controller

Models:

	ruby script/generate model nonPluralModel
	rake db:migrate
	ruby script/generate migration add_price	# Add column
	ruby script/generate migration create_table	# Add new table
	ruby script/generate migration rename_table	# Rename Table 
	ruby script/generate migration add_test_data # Add data in the db/migrate/003_add_test_data.rb

	# Static Scaffolds 
	ruby script/generate scaffold model_name controller_name

	# Redoing a rake
	rake db:migrate VERSION=2 
	rake db:migrate VERSION=3 if you canted db/migrate/003_add_test_data.rb


Freezing Rails (sticks rails framework into vendor directory):
	rake rails:freeze:gems
	rake rails:unfreeze

Sessions in Database instead of filesystem
	rake db:sessions:create
	rake db:migrate

Rake Tasks
	rake --tasks
	rake log:clear	# Truncate all *.log files to zero bytes
	rake tmp:clear  # Clears out files in tmp directory
	rake stats		# Code stats