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  • Paperback: 534 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (16 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596527314
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596527310
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"Rails Cookbook" is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range from the basics, like installing Rails and setting up your development environment, to the latest techniques, such as developing RESTful web services. With applications that are code light, feature-full and built to scale quickly, Rails has revolutionized web development. "The Rails Cookbook" addresses scores of real-world challenges; each one includes a tested solution, plus a discussion of how and why it works, so that you can adapt the techniques to similar situations. Topics include: modeling data with the ActiveRecord library; setting up views with ActionView and RHTML templates; building your application's logic into ActionController; testing and debugging your Rails application; building responsive web applications using JavaScript and Ajax; ensuring that your application is security and performs well; deploying your application with Mongrel and Apache; using Capistrano to automate deployment; using the many Rails plugins; and, working with graphics. Whether you're new to Rails or an experienced developer, you'll discover ways to test, debug and secure your applications, incorporate Ajax, use caching to improve performance, and put your application into production. Want to get ahead of the Web 2.0 curve? This valuable cookbook will save you hundreds of hours when developing applications with Rails.

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Ruby on Rails allows you to develop organized and scaleable
web applications in real time. The Rails framework speeds up the process of
creating database driven web applications and the Rails Cookbook teaches
how to use this framework by example - so you can try out new features, and
use sample code to understand how the language and framework operate--and
how to put them to work for you. This comprehensive collection of problems,
solutions, and practical examples will satisfy Rails developers at all
levels of expertise. Whether you're new to Ruby programming and need
something to bridge the gap between theory-laden reference manuals and
real-world programs or you're an experienced Rails programmer looking for a
new perspective or a different problem-solving context, this book will help
you make the most of your Ruby and Ruby on Rails knowledge.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A reasonable companion to ADROR, 20 May 2006
By A. K. C. Green "rarepleasures" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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A few months ago I previewed the Rough Cuts version of 'Rails Cookbook' and at that stage there was very little to merit it. However it seems the bulk of the material now covered in this book was added just prior to release.

The 'Rails Cookbook' serves as a reasonable companion to 'Agile Development with Ruby on Rails' (one of the must have tomes on the subject). Whereas ADROR generally devotes a chapter per aspect of the framework, Cookbook instead takes a 'task by section approach' so for instance you have a section called 'Modelling a Database with Active Record'. Several of the chapters covered the same ground, and where they do Rails Cookbook differs by working through the examples with the Rails Console.

This book won't gain you the further insight into the inner workings of Rails that some of the excellent blogs on the subject might and given a limited budget I would probably opt for Rails Recipes over this book, alternatively purchasing the cheaper PDF ebook version of this title is certainly worthwhile.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Poor choice of title..., 11 Sep 2007
By Paul Lynch (UK) - See all my reviews
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This book puzzled me at first; it isn't the normal cookbook formula pioneered by O'Reilly. The Perl Cookbook, for example, starts where Learning Perl and Programming Perl leave off, with recipe style examples of advanced and complex problems. The Rails Cookbook takes an entirely different approach: the content is roughly the same as that worked through on the Pragmatic Studios 3 day class, with a worked example for every topic. As such, it works more as an introductory tutorial to Rails than the advanced workbook that the title leads us to expect.

I was a little disappointed by the section on REST; all of this section was by a different author (as some of the other individual recipes are), but was laid in front of us like a slab of cold, dead meat, not integrated into the rest of the book. This gave me the impression that it had been written for release 1.1 or Rails, but had sat on shelf for some months for a brisk makeover and eventual release. I liked the section on Capistrano, which gives us some additional tasks that are of practical use.

If you want a Rails Cookbook, buy Chad Fowler's Rails Recipes; but if you want a practical introductory text on Rails, this is probably the best, suited to sit alongside Agile Web Development with Rails.
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