Rebuilding Rails for Yourself Why Rebuild Rails? Who Should Rebuild Rails? Working Through Getting Set Up Zero to "It Works!" In the Rough Hello World, More or Less Making Rulers Use Rack Review In Rails Exercises Exercise One: Reloading Rulers Exercise Two: Your Library's Library Exercise Three: Test Early, Test Often Your First Controller Sample Source On the Rack Routing Around It Almost Worked! Review Exercises Exercise One: Debugging the Rack Environment Exercise Two: Debugging Exceptions Exercise Three: Roots and Routes In Rails Rails Automatic Loading Sample Source Where's My Constant? CamelCase and snake_case Reloading Means Convenience Putting It Together Review Exercises Exercise One: Did It Work? Exercise Two: Re-re-reloading In Rails Rendering Views Sample Source Erb and Erubis And Now, Back to Our Program More Quotes, More Better Controller Names Review Exercises Exercise One: Mind Those Tests! Exercise Two: View Variables Exercise Three: Rake Targets for Tests In Rails Basic Models Sample Source File-Based Models Inclusion and Exclusion Queries Where Do New Quotes Come From? Review Exercises Exercise One: Object Updates Exercise Two: Caching and Sharing Models Exercise Three: More Interesting Finders In Rails Request, Response Sample Source Requests with Rack Responses with Rack Review Exercises Exercise One: Automatic Rendering In Rails The Littlest ORM Sample Source What Couldn't FileModel Do? (Lots) No Migrations? But How Can I...? Read That Schema When Irb Needs a Boost Schema and Data Seek and Find I Might Need That Later Review Exercises Exercise One: Column Accessors Exercise Two: method_missing for Column Accessors Exercise Three: from_sql and Types In Rails Rack Middleware Sample Source Care and Feeding of Config.ru The Real Thing Powerful and Portable Built-In Middleware Custom Middleware More Complicated Middleware Middleware Fast and Slow Review Exercises Exercise One: Do It With Rulers Exercise Two: Middleware from Gems Exercise Three: More Benchmarking In Rails Real Routing Sample Source Routing Languages Controller Actions are Rack Apps Rack::Map and Controllers Configuring a Router Playing with Matches Putting It Together (Again) Review Exercises In Rails What Else Does Rails Do? Security Appendix: Installing Ruby, Git and Bundler Ruby Windows Mac OS X Ubuntu Linux Others Git (Source Control) Windows Mac OS X Ubuntu Linux Others Gems Gem Paths Other Rubies