Appendix B. Quick Reference

The whole purpose of this book has been to get you up and running quickly with Ruby on Rails. You've learned how the core pieces of Rails work and how to use Rails to build a basic web application. Rails contains more features and capabilities than can be covered in a quick-start book like this. This appendix contains a concise list of the features of Rails with links to more information.

Substantial parts of this quick reference are taken from "What Is Ruby on Rails" by Curt Hibbs, ^[*] the "InVisible Ruby On Rails Reference 1.1.2" by InVisible GmbHd, ^{[ ]} and the official Ruby on Rails API documentation (http://api.rubyonrails.com). This appendix is released under the Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/) and can be downloaded from this book's web site: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyrails.

^[*] "What Is Ruby on Rails" was published at ONLamp.com in October 2005 (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails.html).

^{[ ]} The "InVisible Ruby On Rails Reference 1.1.2 was released under the Creative Commons license. The original version can be found at http://blog.invisible.ch/files/rails-reference-1.1.html.