Recently I was asked the following question:

“How hard is it to build this project in Rails”

You can substitute this with anything. After a short period of time I realized that such a question can’t be really answered to a point where a programmer would agree completely if he/she didn’t even touched Ruby on Rails. In order to change that fact a person should see the whole process of developing and deploying a Rails application so he/she can realize the power and potential of a Rails application.

With all this in mind I hereby announce the Project type articles of RubyCorner.net. Those articles will represent an overview of the development process of a real working Rails web application. This article is the first of the series Project and it will begin not so briefly and give a more detailed overview of the things we will do. The next articles in the series will focus on more complex things and will skip those explained before assuming the knowledge was already obtained.

Let’s begin with our first web application project:

Project 1 – Developing a News site in Rails
parts count: 3 (this is a three day project)

Rails version used: 1.2.3 (used both on Windows and Linux platform)
Ruby version used: 1.8.5 (used both on Windows and Linux platform)
Knowledge of HTML and CSS: assumed
Knowledge of a Web Programming Language and Database: Basic-Advanced assumed

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