Ruby on Rails for media

Werner RamaekersVRT Medialab

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Wired - April 20062

“Ruby on RailsTM is an open-source web framework that’s

optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable

productivity.”

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Convention

Configuration

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class Post < ActiveRecord::Basebelongs_to :webloghas_many :commentshas_one :author, :class => “Person”

end

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class WeblogController < ActionControllerdef show

@post = Post.find(params[:id])end

end

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Create Read Update Delete

REpresentational State Transfert

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SELECT INSERT UPDATE DELETE

find create update destroy

GET POST PUT DELETE

SQL

ruby

HTTP

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class PeopleController < ActionController# POST /peopledef create() end

# GET /people/1def show() end

# PUT /people/1def update() end

# DELETE /people/1def destroy() end

end

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Demo

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CBS has partnered with sites including AOL, Joost, Sling Media, YouTube, MSNBC and Bebo

Viewership for CBS material subsequently skyrocketed from 24 million in May to 134 million in July 2007

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/10/nbc_itunes

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