[briandear]

With scaffolding, you can have a functioning Rails CRUD app in literally minutes. There is a lot of stuff Rails _can_ do, but not a lot of stuff you _need_ to do. You don’t even need to write a single line of JavaScript if you don’t want to.

rails new && rails g scaffold Movies title:string && rake db:migrate && rails s

Visit localhost:3000 in your browser and there you go. With that short line, you can CRUD Movies including a functional UI. Obviously “real” apps will require a bit more work, but not much depending on how complex you need things to be. The Rails Guides are super helpful.

If someone wants a more robust and production-ready intro to Rails, Michael Hartl’s free Rails Tutorial is exceptionally good.

[criddell]

Hartl's tutorial is the one I was working through. It's excellent.