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Rails

Bash

Generators - rails g

Add column - rails g migration AddEmailToUsers email:string

Apply DB changes - rake db:migrate (rake db:rollback to rollback)

ActiveRecord

Data Types - :primary_key, :string, :text, :integer, :float, :decimal, :datetime, :timestamp, :time, :date, :binary, :boolean, :belongs_to (ref). (ref)

SSL

http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2011/05/configuring-rails-3-https-ssl/

Validation

Helpers - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations_callbacks.html#validation-helpers