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Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same application in other frameworks.

With this book you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There are extensive chapters on testing, deployment, and scaling.

You'll see how easy it is to install Rails using your web server of choice (such as Apache or lighttpd) or using its own included web server. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all.

You'll create a complete online store application in the extended tutorial section, so you'll see how a full Rails application is developed---iteratively and rapidly.

Rails strives to honor the Pragmatic Programmer's "DRY Principle" by avoiding the extra work of configuration files and code annotations. You can develop in real-time: make a change, and watch it work immediately.

Forget XML. Everything in Rails, from templates to control flow to business logic, is written in Ruby, the language of choice for programmers who like to get the job done well (and leave work on time for a change).

Rails is the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0 developers. Agile Web Development with Rails is the book for that generation, written by Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer and author of Programming Ruby) and David Heinemeier Hansson, who created Rails. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. 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.

Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications with a twist...you can create a full Rails application using less code than the setup XML you'd need just to configure some other frameworks. With this book, you'll learn how to use Rails Active Record to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, talk to web services, and interact dynamically with Javascript applications running in the browser (the "Ajax" architecture). You'll see how easy it is to deploy Rails. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   22 of 22 people found the following review helpful: Rails is changing the industry, 17 Aug 2005 By  Mr. Peter Cooper (Louth, Lincolnshire) - See all my reviews       This review is from: Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) (Paperback) If you're a good Rails developer with experience, you won't lack for work nowadays (I am looking for people all the time it seems). This book has everything you need to become a good Rails developer. The experience bit is left as a reader exercise. The cute thing about this book is how it was developed. A few months ago it was released in a "beta" PDF form and sold to early adopters. The beta readers sent back lots of corrections, suggestions, and so forth.. and, wow, the book has undergone radical changes. It's precise, it's correct, and it's totally "canon" on the standards of developing in Ruby on Rails. It ought to be though, the developer of Rails is a co-author! I'm not going to go into what Rails is, or even what it does, as you shouldn't be here unless you know. If you need more information, go to the official Rails site which goes into it all in detail. But, this book is ace. You will not be wasting your money here if you want to be involved in the next massive thing in Web development. Put down your PHP books, and get involved in the exciting world of Rails.. your bank manager will thank you.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   16 of 16 people found the following review helpful: The only place to start with RubyOnRails, 4 Jan 2007 By  GS Colborne "Gavin Colborne" (London) - See all my reviews    This book is co-authored by the creator of Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, with the Dave Thomas, the author of 'Programming Ruby' (otherwise known as The PickAxe book). You simply cannot go wrong with this one, it is written assuming you know nothing about Rails or Ruby and gives a fantastic introduction to them both, but especially to Rails. Starting out with 'Hello World' and then building a useful web application called 'Depot', an online store, explaining at a good level what is going on in the framework at all times it then finishes off with some more advanced chapters on Active Record (the model), Deployment and Scaling etc... What I like about Ruby on Rails, that this book communicated so well to me, coming from a mainly Perl (with a little Java experience) background, is the great advantages of Model View Controller architecture, Object Relational Mapping, Test Driven Development and other topics without ever talking down or over-complicating as so many techie books seem to do. Other good chapters include: 'Web 2.0 (with AJAX)', 'Web Services with Rails', 'Securing your Application' and an 'Introduction to Ruby' which is based on The PickAxe tutorial. To learn more about Ruby, once you have completed this book, (and you will complete it as Rails is such a great technology you will simply want to know more about Ruby to get deeper into Rails!) you should get Dave Thomas's 'Programming Ruby'.