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Simple, Easy web based CRUD in less than 20 minutes .. At least thats how long it took me.

I first heard about Rails from an Oreilly Article “Rolling with Ruby on Rails“. At first sight it looked cool and quite functional, but the barrier of looking at a new programming language Ruby and web framework Rails was a bit daunting.

Then a while later I found a link “How to create a Todo Application“.

This article is what amazed me. Armed with a great tutorial and 20 minutes of time, I was guided through creating a web application, doing CRUD’s in a language I didn’t know.

The documentation for rails is impressive, easy to read and good looking. This applies to both the Ruby on Rails site as well as the Book/Tutorial engine Hieraki, which powered the Todo tutorial.

While this may not seem that useful as Framework X already does this, being able to provide a quick visual web based interface for Proof of Concept or command line database applications is a time saver.

Not sure where it fits in my toolbox, but its a great example of what good documentation should be and maybe a quick way to provide access to a database.