Ruby On Rails is an open source Web framework that help you to create web applications more easier, faster & write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. There are lots of websites that use Ruby On Rails, including popular ones like Twitter, Basecamp, AboutUs, Yellow Pages & many more.

I’m simply writing about what I find as I explore Ruby on Rails (ROR) – your mileage should vary but chances are you landed here due to a long tail search. Since I am not a Ruby or ROR expert it is quite possible for me to discover a solution or approach that works for me but which may not be a good Ruby/ROR solution.

Rails was a wake-up call to the web development world in so many ways. In the short time – a mere five years — that it’s been around, it’s been responsible for many changes in the world of web applications:

Being inspired by the wonderful series of articles/screencasts on the nettuts website called CodeIgniter From Scratch I decided to write my own series on using CodeIgniter and Doctrine together to build a functional website in a series of tutorials.

I wanted to canvass the opinion of friends and colleagues on the habits of their on-line music consumption, particularly pertaining to music subscriptions, which is a central idea within my business plan. I knew that I wasn’t an expert in marketing, so I wanted to design a form that would allow users to customise it as they went;