Rails Links

For my training class last week I put together some links that might be useful to people that are new to rails. I thought I would share these links here too.

Git tool: 

• http://github.com/Caged/gitnub/wikis 

SVN tool:

•  http://versionsapp.com/

Rails google group:

• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails 

Rails google group for core:

• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core

Documentation sites:

• http://www.gotapi.com/
• http://apidock.com/

Less Everything Products:

• http://lessaccounting.com/
• http://getmorehoney.com/
• http://lessprojects.com/
• http://lessmemories.com/
• http://lovdbyless.com/
• http://weallhatequickbooks.com/
• http://www.lessfriends.com/

Rails built in Java Script libraries:

• http://www.prototypejs.org/
• http://script.aculo.us/

jQuery:

• http://jquery.com/
• http://ui.jquery.com/
• http://plugins.jquery.com/

IRC channels (on freenode):

• #rails
• #rails-contrib
• #lovdbyless (where I can almost always be found)

Open Source rails apps:

• http://lovdbyless.com
• http://mephistoblog.com/
• http://portal.insoshi.com/

Firefox tools:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
• http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Automatically sanitize:

• http://code.google.com/p/xss-shield/
• http://railspikes.com/2008/1/28/auto-escaping-html-with-rails

Misc:

• http://yehudakatz.com/2007/12/18/search-in-a-directory-third-times-the-charm/
• http://www.thoughtbot.com/projects/shoulda
• http://code.google.com/p/lessjsroutes/

4 Comments

Croaky said on September 18, 2008

Don’t forget Railroad Slang:

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/glossry1.Html

Big Tiger said on September 18, 2008

Here’s another source for online/offline documentation. Ajax-ified Ruby and Rails sites:

http://www.rubybrain.com
http://www.railsbrain.com

Michael Johann said on September 19, 2008

Steven, Alan,

this is an awesome list.
Really great.

Thanks
Michael

Jim Neath said on October 07, 2008

You should probably as jRails to your jquery list.

http://ennerchi.com/projects/jrails