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Ruby On Rails Commands

Ruby On Rails – A Cheatsheet

Ruby On Rails Commands

update rails

gem update rails

create a new application

rails application

generate documentation

rake appdoc

view available tasks

rake --tasks

view code statistics

rake stats

start ruby server at

ruby script/server

ruby script/generate controller Controllername

ruby script/generate controller Controllername action1

action2

ruby script/generate scaffold Model Controller

ruby script/generate model Modelname

URL Mapping

Naming

Class names are mixed case without breaks:

MyBigClass, ThingGenerator

Tablenames, variable names and symbols are lowercase with an

underscore between words

silly_count, temporary_holder_of_stuff

ERb tags

<%=

ending with -%> will surpress the newline that follows

use method

to escape html & characters (prevent sql attacks, etc)

h()

Creating links

<%= link_to “Click me”, :action => “action_name” %>

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Last updated 12/6/05

Ruby On Rails Commands