# Rails Notes

Wolfram Arnold's notes and slides for teaching Rails

## Author

Wolfram Arnold <wolfram@rubyfocus.biz>

GitHub/Twitter/LinkedIn: wolframarnold

# Showing the slides

We use a Ruby app called `showoff` to generate and serve the slides.

Alex has been improving showoff; until his latest patches get accepted and released, you will have to download and install his version, as follows:

    git clone git://github.com/alexch/showoff.git
    cd showoff
    bundle install --without optional
    rake gem:install
    
After installing, run

    showoff serve

This will launch a local Sinatra server on port 9090. Open your browser to `localhost:9090`. On a Mac you can run:

    open http://localhost:9090

Use arrow keys to navigate slides. Press '?' to see a help window.

# Editing slides

Slides are in [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) format. Showoff will read all `.md` files in alphabetical order.

You can also add custom `.css`, `.scss`, and `.js` files, which will get imported into all slide sections.

Images should be in, or relative to, the current directory.

# Printing slides

Try this: first `gem install pdfkit`, then visit

    http://localhost:9090/pdf

but I make no guarantees!

## Based upon and/or inspired by

* [Michael Hartl'l Rails Tutorial](http://ruby.railstutorial.org/)

# LICENSE

This project is under an open source license. We're not sure exactly which one... probably MIT.

Michael Hartl's material and all excerpts included herein are under copyright and provided under fair use so long you've purchased a copy of the Rails Tutorial.