Learn how to create an interactive Web blog that allows visitors
to register and post articles and comments. You'll see how to
use the Ruby on Rails framework environment to create a full-
featured Web blog using the Ruby programming language and the
MySQL database server. We'll walk through the development of a
complete Web blog application. During the course, you'll see
step-by-step how to create all of the software and database
objects used in the application. We'll begin by looking at
exactly what the Ruby programming language is. Ruby has taken
the Web world by storm, providing an object-oriented approach to
Web programming. Its simplicity and user-friendliness make it
ideal for beginning programmers to use to dive into the world of
dynamic Web sites. After going through the basics of Ruby
programming, we'll turn to the Ruby on Rails framework
environment. Ruby on Rails is a relatively new, but already very
popular, player in the world of dynamic Web sites. We'll go
through the steps of creating the Ruby