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Ruby On Rails Reference

by Jens-Christian Fischer. Average Reading Time: about a minute.

Tomorrow marks the start of my third Ruby On Rails course. It’s going to be a 3 day course with a (somewhat lengthy) introduction to Ruby (and some of the joys of programming in a very dynamic language) with the rest of the time devoted to Rails. I firmly believe in hands-on training, so the amount of lecturing is minimal. And there are only 5 or 6 participants in the class. They will build an application from scratch – either something from their domain (or if they don’t have any idea) an application that I have thought out.

The course materials consist of the two books “Programming Ruby” and “Agile Web Development with Rails”. In addition, I created a 20+ page summary of the most used Rails commands, functions, classes. It’s based partly on the book and mostly on the source code and it’s documentation. Consider it a giant “cheat sheet” for rails.

I release it under a [Creative Commons][1] license.

There’s the PDF version [rails-reference-1.1.pdf][2] (480 kb) and the [HTML version][5] and you can check out the source code (it’s all written in plain text [Markdown][3]) in the [Subversion repository][4]. The [Changelog][7] will tell you what has changed.

Comments, feedback, corrections are welcome! Oh – and if you like it, feel free to [Digg it][6]

The guide will always be free, but if you’d like, you can buy me a beer by pressing the nice PayPal Donation button here:

[1]: http://creativecommons.org
[2]: http://blog.invisible.ch/files/rails-reference-1.1.pdf
[3]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[4]: http://invisible.ch/projects/browser/rails-seminar/doc
[5]: http://blog.invisible.ch/files/rails-reference-1.1.html
[6]: http://digg.com/programming/ruby_on_rails_reference_cheatsheet
[7]: http://blog.invisible.ch/files/changelog.html

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97 comments on ‘Ruby On Rails Reference’

  1. Nathaniel Brown says:
    2006-09-07 at 22:33

    This is an excellent convergent doc on all the core Rails elements. Your invested time is much appreciated!

  2. SyntheticRabbit: Blog > :dependent => :destroy says:
    2006-09-10 at 09:02

    [...] I thought Rails might handle this automatically, but alas, it does not. I found the answer in Invisible Blog’s RoR Reference (page 5). [...]

  3. Ruby on Rails references » jchatard.info says:
    2006-09-24 at 20:42

    [...] Un tout petit billet pour signaler à tous le développeurs Ruby on Rails que le blog d’Invisible a publié une page de références pour RoR très bien faite et très complète ! [...]

  4. Volker says:
    2006-10-03 at 13:59

    A great and helpful tool. Thanks!

  5. Awsome Rails Reference PDF says:
    2006-10-05 at 15:24

    [...] I found this pdf over at the InVisible Blog. This is a great shortcut reference to commonly used things when programming in Ruby on Rails. I’m not sure how I lived without this for so long. There is a HTML version here or download the original pdf here. [...]

  6. Cristiano Dias says:
    2006-10-11 at 20:16

    I can’t live without it. Thanks a lot.

  7. at This One Might Be Useful says:
    2006-10-18 at 18:42

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  8. A Handful of Links at This One Might Be Useful says:
    2006-10-18 at 19:24

    [...] Rails Ruby on Rails Reference: terribly useful Ruby on Rails Manual: searchable! separated by version! [...]

  9. CableGuy says:
    2006-10-24 at 12:06

    Great! Ruby on Rails Reference is all we need…. :)

  10. Pozycjonowanie says:
    2006-10-27 at 12:42

    This is one of the best beginner Rails reference docs I’ve seen. It’s been very helpful to me as I learn. Thanks. Greetings

  11. Robert says:
    2006-11-10 at 21:45

    Great idea and a famous job.
    Thx!

  12. SmickSmack / Some Cool/Interesting/Useful Ruby/Rails Stuff says:
    2006-11-17 at 01:45

    [...] RoR Short Reference (24 page pdf) [...]

  13. jh says:
    2006-11-20 at 19:56

    Tnks! This is what I’ve been looking for, also as a short reference.

    PS: it seems you need an anty-spam solution

  14. Ruby on Rails resources | StinkyTofu | Andrew M. Lin says:
    2006-11-23 at 04:10

    [...] Ruby on Rails Reference – A 20+ page summary of the most used commands, functions, and classes. Available in pdf and html format. [...]

  15. magazzino emmezeta says:
    2006-11-27 at 12:45

    This is one of the best beginner Rails reference docs I’ve seen. It’s been very helpful to me as I learn. Thanks. Greetings

  16. neoline says:
    2006-11-30 at 11:26

    Thats great that you shared this reference. Thank you very much

  17. sam says:
    2006-12-02 at 04:15

    hey,
    thanks a ton–i’m diving into programming cold because i have a specific web site i want to design, and i need all the help i can get.

    thanks a lot!

  18. Brautmode says:
    2007-01-07 at 17:02

    I found this page on google because I`m looking for solution for a Rails problem. And I think I found it in your sheet. I will check it out now, but thanks at this time for your support.

  19. Tanie linie lotnicze says:
    2007-01-19 at 13:29

    Thats great that you shared this reference.
    Fantastic article covering some points I really needed some good usability info for.
    Best regards from Poland
    Tanie linie lotnicze

  20. Ari says:
    2007-01-24 at 12:48

    Great reference, thanks!

    Have you thought about updating the reference to Rails 1.2?

  21. Administrator says:
    2007-01-24 at 15:20

    Yes – that’s planned… It will take some time, because I have quite a few things moving right now

  22. ant21 says:
    2007-01-25 at 03:57

    Fantastic! Really thanks for your hard work. Google takes me here looking for solutions. It’s a very useful reference.

  23. Vasudev Ram says:
    2007-02-07 at 08:44

    A very useful reference.
    Thanks a lot!

    Vasudev Ram
    http://www.dancingbison.com

  24. Ivan says:
    2007-02-25 at 22:54

    Wow. That’s great! Thanks for the nice article.
    Centro Software Libre

  25. ruby on rails reference cheat sheet « ditoinfo in english says:
    2007-03-07 at 21:01

    [...] March 7th, 2007 This website has an excelent Ruby on Rails resource for those in need (like most of us). It features lot’s of command line options, code snippets, and stuff like that. Very handfull! This is the link to the blog entry, and this one points to the text itself. Take a look! Posted by dante regis Filed in Uncategorized [...]

  26. otilie says:
    2007-03-23 at 17:40

    Interesting site. Thanks for the useful informations. Keep up the good work.

  27. kontakt says:
    2007-04-12 at 19:25

    thanks for the reference (pdf)!

  28. grty says:
    2007-05-08 at 21:43

    This is one of the best beginner Rails reference docs I’ve seen. It’s been very helpful to me as I learn. Thanks. Greetings

  29. NinjaHideout » Blog Archives » Ruby on Rails megapost - Awesome Resources says:
    2007-05-16 at 10:02

    [...] LONG notes sheet, well worth reading (lots of detail). [...]

  30. domy drewniane says:
    2007-06-13 at 13:26

    Interesting site. Thanks for the useful informations.

  31. Dmitry says:
    2007-06-16 at 10:31

    Hi,

    Weill be such reference for rails 1.2 available ?

    Thanks.

    Regards.

  32. Rainer says:
    2007-07-17 at 15:43

    That’s a very nice move – to publish your ROR course for free. Next week I will start my first Rails project, and I am pleased at your tips.

  33. Andy says:
    2007-08-14 at 04:47

    great reference. handy to have a pdf to search locally too!
    thanks

  34. RailsNuby says:
    2007-09-03 at 12:07

    @71 – This really is a great reference. Is a 1.2 version still in the works? If so, do you have a timeline? If not, will you re-release the source so that others can update it? (I couldn’t access the subversion version via the published link – http://invisible.ch/projects/browser/rails-seminar/doc ).

  35. Administrator says:
    2007-09-04 at 16:44

    Yes it still is in the works and will hopefully surface RSN…

    I’ll look into the SVN problem…

  36. Nic says:
    2007-09-29 at 07:14

    Thanks a bunch for the PDF as im learning Ruby at the moment it has proven very useful.

  37. WIllem de Ru says:
    2007-10-02 at 10:35

    Thanks, this is an excellent help! And I am also looking forward to the 1.2 version. Thanks!

  38. Mario Wunder says:
    2007-10-23 at 20:16

    hi, thanks for the many information – Currently I am busy in studying ROR…. I love it.

  39. rafaelleite.com.br » Ruby on Rails says:
    2007-11-03 at 05:08

    [...] Referência sobre RoR, apanhado interessante de informações. [...]

  40. Muhammed says:
    2007-12-26 at 09:56

    Short n sweet reference, thanks for sharing…

  41. Dan says:
    2008-01-23 at 19:49

    Thanks for this reference!

    Any chance of a Rails 2.0 version soon?

    -Dan

  42. kane77 says:
    2008-02-07 at 20:45

    Thanx.. this is great reference!

    will there be updated version, as quite a few things have changed in 2.0 rails..

  43. fabiolagana.net » InVisible Ruby On Rails Reference 1.1.2 says:
    2008-03-20 at 10:22

    [...] This reference guide is © 2006 by InVisible GmbH (http://www.invisible.ch) and released under a Creative Commons license (see end for details). More information and a PDF version of this document can be found at http://blog.invisible.ch/2006/05/01/ruby-on-rails-reference/. Do you find this reference useful? It will always be free, but if you like to buy me a beer, consider using the handy Donation button to do so [...]

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  46. mr49 says:
    2009-06-11 at 08:13

    hi,
    im new in learning ROR,,,,,, n find this blog very informatic….
    but since last two days when i try to open this blog, i got the message HTTP 404 Not Found….
    plz solve this problem…

    thnx in advancd

    Regards,
    mr49

  47. FA says:
    2009-07-28 at 23:15

    Thanks for this cheat sheet, This is really helpful to me to get started with ROR.

    I am trying to download rails-reference-1.1.pdf but this PDF link is giving me “Error 404 – File not Found” error. Link I am using is:
    Link http://blog.invisible.ch/files/rails-reference-1.1.pdf

    Can I download this file from anywhere?

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