Starting a Wheels Powered Blog

In this video, Mike Haggerty starts building a Wheels-powered "bhlawg." He introduces some intermediate features of Wheels, including URL rewriting, interacting with the model, and basic form helpers.

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Topics

1. Downloading and Installing Wheels
2. Enabling URL Rewriting
3. Creating a Database to Hold Posts
4. Building a Form and Actions to Create and Edit Posts

Related Chapters in the Documentation

• Beginner Tutorial: Hello World
• Request Handling
• URL Rewriting
• Object Relational Mapping Basics
• Creating Records
• Reading Records
• Updating Records