Category: Ruby on Rails

In Rails, Bundler is a dependency management tool that ensures your application has the correct versions of the required gems. A gem in Ruby is a packaged Ruby library that provides functionality for Ruby applications. Gems are hosted on RubyGems.org, which is the official Ruby package repository. The main role of Bundler is to manage and install…

Rails API provides a useful feature called Console. The console is an interactive tool for testing the code in our Rails application. Before opening a console session, let us define a Person model with name and age columns. rails generate model Person name:string age: integer invoke active_record create db/migrate/20250227112053_create_people.rb create app/models/person.rb invoke test_unit create test/models/person_test.rb create test/fixtures/people.yml This will create Person class derived…

When you use the Rails helper script to create your application, it creates the entire directory structure for the application. Rails knows where to find things it needs within this structure, so you don’t have to provide any input. Shown below is a top-level view of a directory tree created by the helper script at…

A framework is a program, set of programs, and/or code library that writes most of your application for you. When you use a framework, your job is to write the parts of the application that make it do the specific things you want. When you set out to write a Rails application, leaving aside the…

To get the “Hello world” message displayed in the browser with a Rails application, you need to create a route, a controller with an action and a view. Rails Generate Command Rails comes with a powerful command line tool called the generate command. It can be used for different purposes. Different types of generators will be displayed with the following command −…

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is an essential software tool that makes the process of development and packaging process a lot easier, convenient and efficient. An IDE provides a one-stop solution for editing the code, compiling and debugging it, and running the application. IDEs also have features such as syntax highlighting, document generation, and version…

To develop a web application using Ruby on Rails Framework, you need to install the following software − Ruby is a programming language, whereas Rails is a web development framework built on Ruby. Rails includes a built-in web server called Puma for local development purposes. For Production: You’ll need a proper web server setup like Puma with Nginx, lightTPD…

What is Ruby? Before we ride on Rails, let us recapitulate a few points of Ruby, which is the base of Rails. Ruby is the successful combination of − Ruby is − Why Ruby? Ruby originated in Japan and now it is gaining popularity in US and Europe as well. The following factors contribute towards…

Ruby on Rails is an extremely productive web application framework written in Ruby. This tutorial gives you a complete understanding on Ruby on Rails. What is Ruby on Rails? Ruby on Rails (or simply Rails) is a server-side web framework. It follows the MVC (model view controller) pattern for the application development. It is written…