Want to get started with Rails 2.0? Explore some of the most prominent new features, and learn how to use them to build a simple, but visually attractive, web application based on Flickr.
by Riccardo Govoni
March 11, 2008
nitially released in 2004, the Rails web application framework became the perfect killer application for the Ruby language and an extremely powerful tool for rapidly developing web applications based on the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) pattern. At the end of 2007, version 2.0 of the now popular web application framework was released. Although not as groundbreaking as the first release, Rails 2.0 still offers many innovations that make developing with it more productive and fun.
This article describes how to get started with Rails 2.0, explores some of the most prominent new features, and uses them to show how to build a simple, but visually attractive, web application. Instead of the standard "create a blog in 15 minutes" example, the application demonstrated here is a useful and immersive photo browser for the popular Flickr photo sharing website.
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