Rails Marketecture Diagram

I’ve updated my course material for the class I’m teaching at the Big Nerd Ranch next week. We’re teaching Ruby and Ruby on Rails in a 7-day, intensive course for those new to programming and those who want an in-depth exposure to Ruby before diving into Rails.

I wanted to share this diagram I made for the new Rails 2.3.2 architecture – a mix between Marketing material and Architecture diagram that I’m calling a “Marketecture” diagram:

In addition to talking about Rails’ semi-new focus on RESTful controllers, there’s even a section on Test-Driven Development with Rails with the new TestCase libraries.