Beginners tutorial in Ruby on Rails

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Examples

All examples are based on a simple project portfolio application

1. A basic scaffold generated app
2. basic manually created app
3. The manual app, with improved CSS¹, and separate admin area (with login) for managing content
4. Same app, making use of gems/plugins:
   Victor Gumayunov’s custom-err-msg² plugin: to improve the wording of error messages
   Thoughtbot’s Paperclip gem³: to attach a screenshot

¹ Yahoo YUI reset and Yahoo YUI fonts alongside author’s own basic stylesheet

² custom-err-msg plugin

³ Paperclip