Beginning Ruby on Rails
This compact guide teaches
Rails Cookbook is not an
Ruby for Rails helps Rails
E-Commerce: From Novice to
you the basics of installing
introductory tutorial, but a
developers achieve Ruby
Professional is the first
and using both the Ruby
problem-solving book that
mastery. Each chapter
book of its kind to guide
scripting language and the
provides coding solutions
deepens your Ruby knowledge
you through producing
Rails framework for the
for a wide range of tasks.
and shows you how it
e-commerce applications with
quick development of web
For every problem addressed
connects to Rails. You'll
Rails--the stacked web
applications. Ruby on Rails:
in the book, you'll find a
gain confidence working with
framework taking the world
Up and Running covers just
worked-out solution or
objects and classes and
by storm. The book dives
about everything you need -
"recipe"-- a
learn how to leverage Ruby's
right into the process of
from making a simple
short, focused piece of code
elegant, expressive syntax
creating a production-level
database-backed application
that you can insert directly
for Rails application power.
web application using agile
to adding elaborate Ajaxian
into your applications.
And you'll become a better
methodologies and
features and all the juicy
Topics covered in the book
Rails developer through a
test-driven development
bits in between. While Rails
include developing scalable
deep understanding of the
combined with Rails best
is praised for its
web applications,
design of Rails itself and
practices. You'll take
simplicity and speed of
test-driven development,
how to take advantage of it.
advantage of the latest crop
development, there are still
working with active record,
of Rails plug-ins and
a few steps to master on the
and deploying Rails
helpers that will radically
way. More advanced material
applications. A discussion
improve your programming
helps you map data to an
on each solution is
schedule. You'll also create
imperfect table, traverse
included, so that you can
a real application
complex relationships, and
learn to adapt the
step-by-step, plus the book
build custom finders. A
problem-solving techniques
is driven by real-world
section on working with Ajax
to similar situations. This
cases throughout.
and REST shows you how to
ultimate Rails code
exploit the Rails service
sourcebook will save you
frameworks to send emails,
hundreds of hours.
implement web services, and
create dynamic user-centric
web pages. The book also
explains the essentials of
logging to find performance
problems and delves into
other performance optimizing
techniques.
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The Money Train is an e-book
Using a conversational tone
The book quickly reviews
Beginning Ruby on Rails
for Ruby on Rails with tips
and lots of easy-to-follow
Rails development and then
introduces web development
on how to build an
examples, popular For
move to essential enterprise
with Ruby on Rails, a
e-commerce site using the
Dummies author Barry Burd
subjects like Web Services
powerful new framework. You
Rails framework. You'll get
gently introduces
(and their relationships
will learn how to develop
a head start on building
programming novices to
with SOA), data persistence,
basic applications by
your own online store by
Web-database processing and
messaging, interoperability
implementing four projects.
learning from someone who
development with Ruby on
with other platforms,
Some of the topics covered
has been there and done
Rails (RoR)
The book ranges
handling documents and
through the projects include
that. Code and schema
from Ruby and RoR basics,
search, spell-checking, and
form handling, CSS,
samples are included to help
installation, and writing
report generation. It also
security, database
you know before-hand what
simple Ruby programs to
covers new Web 2.0
integration,
you'll be up against and how
using RoR with Ajax and
technologies like Ajax and
model-view-controller
to tackle some common
creating a blog, a shopping
the read-write Web. It is
architecture, and
problems.
cart, and other real-world
rich in examples and covers
test-driven programming.
projects
numerous interesting topics
Projects include a task
readers will be surprised to
manager, a RSS aggregator, a
see, such as advanced search
community manager (similar
with Ferret, how to access
in nature to MySpace.com),
del.icio.us and Flickr from
and one that utilizes the
Ruby, or how to use Yahoo's
Amazon API.
general search from Ruby.
The book closes with a look
at the Semantic Web and why
it makes sense to adopt
semantic Web technologies.
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