NerdNight – Getting Up and Running with Ruby on Rails
April 20th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
So, today our task was to create a fully-functional user authentication portion of a RoR website. The end result would have New User registration, site membership (complete with password authentication). This was quite comfortably done within the span of 90 minutes. How, you ask? Well, this was all possible due to the ultra-smart ruby gem devise.
Tracing back to what we did this evening, we started from scratch, with installing RoR. Then we deleted the default index.html file residing in the public folder of the application. Once this was done, we created the action for the Home view inside the home controller file. Since this is all using the default model, we only needed to change the controller and the view files. The next step was to gem install the devise gem, and have that piece take care of our membership. It was really really cool how the features unveiled themselves right out of the box.
I just wanted to drop in to say how cool it’s been learning this Rails thing…
I have to mention, off-topic, that I thought this was pretty cool to learn of at NerdNight: Brain Rules.
