This document provides a crash course introduction to Ruby and the Rails web framework in 30 minutes. It covers the basics of Ruby including classes, methods, variables, and duck typing. It then discusses Rails and the MVC pattern with Models for database access and business logic, Views for templates and output formats, and Controllers for HTTP requests. The document encourages reading documentation and experimenting with Ruby and Rails to learn.

1. Ruby and Rails
a Crash Course in 30 minutes

2. Ruby

3. classes

4. classes

5. classes

6. methods

7. variables

8. duck typing

9. duck typing

11. strings & numbers

12. arrays

13. hashes

14. Rails

15. MVC
• Model
• View
• Controller

16. Model
• Database Access Object
• Bussiness Logic
• CRUD

17. View
• templates
• html / xml / js / pdf / ...
• custom languages

18. Controller
• HTTP Actions
• parameter parsing
• session / cookie management

19. Demo

20. Interested?

21. Read!

25. Experiment!

30. Ya dasn’t get ‘t?