Ruby on Rails: Up and Running ()

Author: Bruce A. Tate
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: Maybe you've heard enough about Ruby on Rails and now want to give it a try. This book is what you need: a fast, practical reference that shows you how to build real-world applications. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running will accelerate you from knowing nothing to full speed in just seven chapters. Whether you want to build scaffolding-based experimental programs or create responsive and user-pleasing applications with Ajax, it covers everything you need. Rails implements a truly lightweight development model for database-driven web applications. With almost no configuration required, just follow some simple rules, and Rails will automatically establish mapping relationships between your database tables. During web application development, if you make changes to the program, you can immediately see the results without going through the terrifying compilation and deployment processes required by other frameworks and programming languages. Development with Rails is relatively simpler, allowing you to focus on the creative aspects of the application rather than wasting time and effort on restrictive rules or tasks. Even in Rails, there are restrictive rules or tasks, but comparatively, you need fewer lines of code to handle them, resulting in less maintenance work and shorter development cycles. The book covers:
- Working with ActiveRecord to collaborate with databases
- Using Migrations to modify databases without SQL
- Modeling relationships between database tables
- Building controllers to express basic operations in the application
- Using templates to develop HTML display pages
- Integrating Ajax into applications
- Writing unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests
Ruby on Rails is one of the most important open-source projects in the past decade. It has revolutionized the way web applications are developed and made the work of hundreds of thousands of developers easier. If you haven't used Rails yet, now is the time to start; and Ruby on Rails: Up and Running will show you how.