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Beginning Rails is the practical starting point for anyone wanting to learn how to build dynamic web applications using the Rails framework for Ruby. You’ll learn how all of the components of Rails fit together and how you can leverage them to create sophisticated web applications with less code and more joy.
This book is particularly well suited to those with little or no experience with web application development, or who have some experience but are new to Rails. Beginning Rails assumes basic familiarity with web terms and technologies, but doesn't require you to be an expert.
Topics include:
- A gentle introduction to the Ruby programming language
- Installing Ruby and Rails on a Mac, Linux, or Windows system
- The philosophy behind Rails and why it matters
- The Model-View-Controller architecture
- The basics of relational databases and SQL
- Setting up a MySQL database and creating a schema with migrations
- Experimenting with your live application in the Rails console
- Creating rich relationships between your models
- Using controllers and templates properly
- Leveraging helpers to keep your templates clean and logic free
- Adding Ajax and visual effects to enrich your user interfaces
- JavaScript with Prototype and script.aculo.us
- How to send and receive mail from your application
- Using and creating your own plug-ins
- Ensuring your code against Murphy’s Law through writing tests
- Using Capistrano to deploy your application
Rather than delving into the arcane details of Rails, the focus is on the aspects of the framework that will become your pick, shovel, and axe. Part history lesson, part introduction to object-oriented programming, and part dissertation on open source software, Beginning Rails doesn’t just explain how to do something in Rails, it explains why.
Every programmer fondly remembers the book that helped them get started. The goal of Beginning Rails is to become that book for you, today.
Table of Contents
- Introducing the Rails Framework
- Getting Started
- Getting Something Running
- Working with a Database: Active Record
- Advanced Active Record: Enhancing Your Models
- Action Pack:Working with the View and the Controller
- Improving Interaction with Ajax
- Sending and Receiving Mail
- Testing Your Application
- Extending Rails with Plugins
- Deploying Your Rails Applications
About the Author
Jeffrey Allan Hardy is a web developer, programmer, and occasional speaker with more than seven years of experience building large-scale web applications. He began working with Rails shortly after its first public release in 2004 and hasn't looked back. He is a partner at Unspace Interactive in Toronto, blogs at http:// quotedprintable.com, and lives somewhere in the deep Canadian wilderness with his wife, his dog, and a cat.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Unfortunately, as the book is aimed at novice readers, rails has moved on considerably since publication. It now means that as soon as you hit chapter 3, the whole books falls down in a heap. Its almost impossible to set up a scaffold as basic components such as scaffolding and pagination are not part of the standard rails install and now require installation through gems or plugins. For a novice user this is almost impossible to achieve and can only help confirm rails as a complete nightmare to set up and configure.
What makes things worse is that there is no additional support via the website, in fact, the only support i can find our old google groups conversations since 2008. Hours of wasted time.
It does seem like a good book, the author writes and instructs very well with a great focus on practicality and process. However, I warn you, do not buy this book, its largely for pulping now.
Wait until May and get Rails 3. - hopefully written just as well but actually current.
What makes things worse is that there is no additional support via the website, in fact, the only support i can find our old google groups conversations since 2008. Hours of wasted time.
It does seem like a good book, the author writes and instructs very well with a great focus on practicality and process. However, I warn you, do not buy this book, its largely for pulping now.
Wait until May and get Rails 3. - hopefully written just as well but actually current.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In response to the other review that got written on here, you are perfectly correct, it is outdated. The real question is, should that be a reason to give it one star? Maybe as a warning, but not as a review for the content of the book and its applicability at the time of writing. It was aimed at an older version of Rails, therefore it's applicable to that version of Rails. You shouldn't be comparing it to the latest version. If we did this in every review then many books would get a low rating. Technology changes, it doesn't mean you should give a book a bad review because it's outdated.
With all of this in mind, the book is aimed at complete beginners, those who haven't worked with Rails yet. In this respect, the book is good because it is basic. Personally, I'm a professional software developer, and I've worked with web MVC frameworks, and I had worked with RoR beforehand. This doesn't mean the book wasn't useful, because it covered topics which I had never had to deal with before, and certainly topics which I've found useful such as the mailing API, the use of AJAX.
I will point out there are a number of mistakes in this book, ones which shouldn't have been made. For example, there's quite a few grammatical inconsistencies, more than I've ever found in a book in fact. I wasn't keen on the description of AJAX either, whilst many believe it's still an acronym, truth be told it has outgrown its original design and many people argue that it is a word. I'd also argue the title of the book isn't appropriate "From Novice to Professional" isn't accurate, as this is more for complete beginners and bringing them up to a proficient level.
With all this said, I think this was Cloves' first book, it was written for an older version of RoR (which was current at the time of when the book was written), and it is aimed at complete beginners. I wouldn't recommend buying it now, but I would recommend buying the next version of their book Beginning Rails 3 that's released in September 2010.
With all of this in mind, the book is aimed at complete beginners, those who haven't worked with Rails yet. In this respect, the book is good because it is basic. Personally, I'm a professional software developer, and I've worked with web MVC frameworks, and I had worked with RoR beforehand. This doesn't mean the book wasn't useful, because it covered topics which I had never had to deal with before, and certainly topics which I've found useful such as the mailing API, the use of AJAX.
I will point out there are a number of mistakes in this book, ones which shouldn't have been made. For example, there's quite a few grammatical inconsistencies, more than I've ever found in a book in fact. I wasn't keen on the description of AJAX either, whilst many believe it's still an acronym, truth be told it has outgrown its original design and many people argue that it is a word. I'd also argue the title of the book isn't appropriate "From Novice to Professional" isn't accurate, as this is more for complete beginners and bringing them up to a proficient level.
With all this said, I think this was Cloves' first book, it was written for an older version of RoR (which was current at the time of when the book was written), and it is aimed at complete beginners. I wouldn't recommend buying it now, but I would recommend buying the next version of their book Beginning Rails 3 that's released in September 2010.
Format:Paperback
After the total beginners book I started with, I picked up this book, and it totally explained what RoR was all about.
Great examples, good pace and works well as a basic reference book for basic stuff.
Buy it!
Great examples, good pace and works well as a basic reference book for basic stuff.
Buy it!
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