What's a web app?
summary
Defines a web app as a browser client talking to a server that applies logic and returns HTML CSS JavaScript, uses the client/browser ↔ server analogy and a restaurant ordering metaphor, explains data lives in a database and logic in the app layer, cites Ruby and Ruby on Rails powering sites like Twitter Shopify and Basecamp, gives Rails’ practical claims: testing-first, DRY and convention over configuration, and launches hands‑on Ruby via tryruby.org exercises.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:09What is Rails
- 8:10What is Ruby
- 12:40Ruby on Rails
- 16:20Model View Controller
- 22:35Questions
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