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<h1>About</h1>
<p>
  Hi there! So you are just starting with Rails? That's great!
  And then this place is for you. It summarizes some of the most important
  information about Ruby on Rails for your reference.
  Those things that you tend to forget
  especially in the beginning like: <em>How do I start the server?</em>
  and <em>What was that config directory for again?</em>.
  Furthermore it is directly aimed at beginners so contrary to common
  concise cheat sheets it contains rather verbose descriptions of some
  concepts. I think it can be of help for all people who just
  started with Ruby and Rails, no matter if they are experienced software
  developers or total beginners. Although it is mainly aimed at the latter
  group :-)
</p>
<p>
  A word of warning: This is the first release of this cheat sheet
  so it <em>may contain inaccuracies or even faults.</em> However accuracy
  isn't the first concern of this cheat sheet. Simplicity is. I want to
  help people get started with Ruby and Rails, not confuse them with every
  edge case you can think of.
</p>
<p>
  This is not meant to be a complete guide to Ruby on Rails. If you are
  looking for more information, I keep a list of good resources for
  learning Ruby and Rails (among other things)
  <a href="http://pragtob.wordpress.com/resources/">at my blog.</a>
</p>

<h1>Is there a PDF?</h1>
<p>Yes <a href="http://www.thetomharrison.com/">Tom</a> created a 
repeatable process to create PDFs of this cheat sheet, yay! You can check
out the PDF <strong><a href="RailsBeginnerCheatSheet.pdf">here</a>
</strong>. <a href="http://www.carolineartz.me/">Caroline</a> built a <strong><a href="RailsBeginnerCheatSheetSinglePage.pdf">single page version with links</a></strong>! I suggest you check both of them out and see which one you like better! However, the first is more up to date.</p>

<h1>Issues/Contributing</h1>
<p>
  There may be errors, misspelled words or inaccuracies here. There might
  be something important missing or something might be confusing. Maybe
  the design is just sub-par.
  If you find anything like this: <strong>please contact me!</strong>
  You can
  <a href="https://github.com/PragTob/rails-beginner-cheatsheet/issues">
  report issues at github</a> where you also get an overview of the
  currently known issues. Or if you don't have a github account
  <a href="mailto:pragtob@gmail.com">drop me an email</a>.
  I will try to fix issues as soon as possible, but if you can and want
  to you can fix them yourself! Just send a pull request to
  <strong><a href="https://github.com/PragTob/rails-beginner-cheatsheet">
  github repository</a></strong>.
</p>

<h1>Who?</h1>
<p>
  This page is brought to you by some people, who want to provide you
  with a better learning experience! Here you can find out who they are.
</p>

<h2>Creator and Maintainer</h2>
<p>
  This cheat sheet is proudly brought to you by Tobias Pfeiffer. However
  please call me Tobi and on the Internet I'm mostly known as
  <em>PragTob</em>. I originally built this for my
  <a href="http://railsgirlsberlin.de/">Rails Girls Berlin</a> project
  group, but I believe a lot of people getting into Rails can benefit from
  it.
</p>
<p>
  If you want to know more about me you can check out my
  <a href="http://pragtob.wordpress.com/">blog</a>,
  <a href="https://twitter.com/PragTob">twitter</a> or
  <a href="https://github.com/PragTob">github</a>!
</p>

<h2>Contributors</h2>
<p>
  As open source is awesome, people can jump in and improve things!
  So here is a little list of awesome contributors:
</p>
<ul>
  <li>
    <strong><a href="https://github.com/DanielKehoe">Daniel Kehoe</a></strong>
    - check out a
    <a href="http://railsapps.github.io/ruby-and-rails.html">list of useful resources</a>
    he created or
    <a href="https://twitter.com/rails_apps">follow him on Twitter</a>!
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong><a href="https://github.com/blairand">Blair Anderson</a></strong>
    kicked off the resources section and provided you with the curated
    path to Rails!
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong><a href="http://www.infrastructure.de/">Barbara Kleinen</a></strong>
    provided some fixes and explanations on the main page!
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong><a href="http://somewherehq.com/people/17-carla-drago">
      Carla Drago</a></strong> made the PDF of this cheat sheet which you
      may download!
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong><a href="http://www.carolineartz.me/">Caroline Artz</a></strong>
    made the single page version of the PDF with links!
  </li>
  <li>
    <strong><a href="http://www.thetomharrison.com/">Tom Harrison</a></strong>
    made the
    process for the <a href="RailsBeginnerCheatSheet.pdf">PDF</a> creation
    repeatable!
  </li>
</ul>