Leon Breedt Knihy

You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that supports unit, functional, and integration testing. It promotes good design principles, code consistency, and effective release management. Beyond best practices, Rails makes it enjoyable to develop impressive web applications. It includes built-in support for Ajax, email functionality, internationalization, and REST-based interfaces, simplifying interactions with other applications. This book teaches you to use ActiveRecord for seamless connections between business objects and database tables, eliminating the hassles of object-relational mapping. Schema creation and modification are made easy with versioned migrations. You'll learn to use the Action Pack framework for routing requests and rendering pages with user-friendly templates and components. The book also covers Rails service frameworks for sending emails, implementing web services, and creating dynamic web pages with integrated JavaScript and Ajax support. Extensive testing coverage is included, along with a revised Deployment chapter featuring Phusion Passenger. The book begins with a comprehensive tutorial that builds parts of an online store, showcasing the best features of Rails V2.

Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications using less code and less effort. Now programmers can get the job done right and still leave work on time. The book has been updated to take advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features. The sample application uses migrations, Ajax, features a REST interface, and illustrates new Rails features. There are new chapters on migrations, active support, active record, and action controller (including the new resources-based routing). The Web 2.0 and deployment chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect the latest thinking. Now, you can learn which environments are best for your style application, and see how Capistrano makes managing your site simple. All the remaining chapters have been extensively updated. Finally, hundreds of comments from readers of the first edition have been incorporated, making this book simply the best available

Ruby on Rails enables the rapid production of high-quality web applications, allowing developers to focus on application creation while Rails manages the intricacies. This award-winning book has guided tens of thousands of developers, endorsed by the Rails core team. New users will find step-by-step instructions, while experienced developers will access comprehensive insider knowledge. The book has evolved alongside Rails, starting with a walkthrough of building a real application and delving into Rails features. This edition offers enhanced information on the Ruby language and elaborates on key concepts. It keeps pace with changing best practices, featuring examples of cookie-backed sessions, HTTP authentication, and Active Record-based forms, emphasizing the correct application of Rails. It also reflects the substantial functional and performance improvements of Ruby 1.9. Sam Ruby, a notable software developer and co-chair of the W3C HTML Working Group, brings his expertise, along with Dave Thomas, an author of the Agile Manifesto and "Programming Ruby," who understands both agility and Ruby. David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the Rails framework, also contributes to this essential resource for developers.