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Zero-to-Sixty: Creating and Deploying a Rails App in Under an Hour

Zero-to-Sixty: Creating and Deploying a Rails App in Under an Hour

Adam Hawkins on Oct 8th 2010 with 89 comments

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+. This tutorial was first published in January, 2010.

Give me an hour of your time, and I’ll take you on a fly by of the Ruby on Rails framework. We’ll create controllers, models, views, add admin logins, and deploy using Heroku’s service in under an hour! In this article we’ll create a simple bookshelf application where you can add books and write thoughts about them. Then we’ll deploy the application in just a few minutes. So buckle up because this article moves fast!

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Setting up a Rails Server and Deploying with Capistrano on Fedora from Scratch
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Setting up a Rails Server and Deploying with Capistrano on Fedora from Scratch

Adam Hawkins on Mar 23rd 2010 with 18 comments

This article and video tutorial will teach you how to setup a basic Fedora server for Rails and PostgreSQL deployments. First, we’ll setup Apache and PostgreSQL. Then, we’ll use phpPgAdmin to create our application’s user and databases. After that, we’ll setup the Ruby platform using Passenger to run our application. Once all the components are installed, we’ll prep our application for deployment using Capistrano.

I’ll show you how to use Capistrano to automate remote tasks and take advantage of other features.

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Prototyping With the 360 CSS Framework

Prototyping With The Grid 960 CSS Framework

Adam Hawkins on Dec 1st 2008 with 219 comments

Grid 960 is a CSS Framework that enables developers to rapidly prototype designs. They are excellent tools for creating mock ups. Why? Because they do all the heavy lifting allowing you to get faster results.

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