Ruby and Rails Glossary
Important terms and definitions explained simply
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The 15 minute blog is a famous video recorded in a software conference in Brazil in 2005 where DHH, Ruby on Rails creator, showed the benefits of the framework by building a blog in 15 minutes.
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Rails associations establish connections between Active Record models. With them, we can define how our models interact and save time an duplication while allowing better model interactions.
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Controllers intermediate between models and views by handling users requests and determining the appropriate response to them.
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A term coined by DHH, Rails framework creator, that states a great preference to use as many convened upon decisions over the extensive use of configuration and customization before hand.
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In Rails, helpers are methods that are accessible to views, defined in the `helpers` directory and global by nature.
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The fundamental block of the MVC pattern. Let's learn what they are and best practices
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Let's learn about “omakase” and what makes Rails a convenient alternative when you want the expert's decision to maximize your productivity
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The Rails Doctrine is a set of conventions and design decisions that come out of the box in every Rails application and can vastly improve the experience of developing Rails apps for the majority of cases.
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Views represent the presentation layer of MVC, rendering data for users through template files or serializers. They map to controller actions and are organized in the app/views directory, focusing exclusively on how information is displayed.
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