In this book you'll learn:
- How to develop web applications quickly and easily with the Ruby on Rails framework
- The basics of programming principles and Ruby syntax, so you can begin to understand what’s going on under the hood
- How to implement must-have web application features, such as user accounts, data validation, sending e-mail, image uploading, and more
- How to use Ajax techniques with Rails and when not to use them
- How to implement other Web 2.0 features in Rails, such as tag clouds and microformats
Summary of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Ruby on Rails
- Chapter 2: Installing Rails
- Chapter 3: Ruby for Rails Developers
- Chapter 4: Getting Started with Rails
- Chapter 5: More Advanced Rails
- Chapter 6: Formatting Data
- Chapter 7: Introduction to Ajax
- Chapter 8: Bringing Forms to Life with Ajax
- Chapter 9: Uploading Files and Sending Attachments
- Chapter 10: User Authentication and Session Management
- Chapter 11: Customizing Rails Views
- Chapter 12: Using Rails Plug-ins and Engines
- Chapter 13: Deploying with Capistrano
- Appendix A: Caching Your Content
- Appendix B: Testing Rails
Who is this book for?
This book is intended for beginning web developers and designers who are familiar with CSS and XHTML but who are (fairly) new to other programming languages.
Conclusion
As with most books from Friends of Ed, this book has a good layout. The book starts with an introduction to Ruby, helps you with the installation process and shows you how to work with Ruby using basic code examples. Then it moves on to more Advanced Rails, and displays how to format data. After that it shows how Rails can do AJAX. The book then makes a jump back again to creating applications that enable you to upload files, deploy authentication and session management. The last part is all about customization, plug-ins, deploying Rails and optimizing and testing the application.
The only downside is that some chapters are a bit short or even missing (there is no chapter on accessibility and the testing chapter is rather short) but the book points you in the right direction to get started.
This book offers an excellent starting point for the beginning Rails programmer.
Competition
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