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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS (9 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1590597362
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590597361
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.4 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 315,572 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Rails--the stacked web framework taking the world by storm. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. You'll take advantage of the latest crop of Rails plug-ins and helpers that will radically improve your programming schedule. You'll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by real-world cases throughout. You will begin by learning how to install Rails and quickly create a product catalog interfaced with your choice of database technologies. Then you'll discover how to build modern, Ajax-powered shopping carts and add useful features like customer feedback modules. Next you'll learn how to integrate your application with open source packages like the Ferret full-text search engine, and how to interface with back-end electronic payment systems. You'll also learn how to make your application work flawlessly with existing production systems using web services, and then ultimately deploy and tune your application for production use.

About the Author
Christian Hellsten is the founder of Aktagon Ltd., a provider of
consulting services and custom Internet software development, and CTO of
Sanda Interactive Ltd. He has worked on large-scale e-business projects as
a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and IBM Business
Consulting Services. Christian's background is in J2EE, but he fell in love
with Ruby on Rails at first sight, and has been using it professionally
ever since to build web applications. When he is not changing the diapers
of his two young daughters at his home in Finland, Christian enjoys
researching new and better ways of building software.

Jarkko Laine is the owner and CEO of O'Design, a Rails-based web design
shop. He has been using Ruby on Rails since 2004 and has contributed
patches to the core developer team, as well as contributing to several
Rails plug-ins. He has provided Rails consultancy for a number of
high-profile organizations, including a major mobile phone manufacturer,
Starnet Systems, and Reforge Oy. He has also taught Rails at the university
level and delivers lectures about Rails around the world. He lives in
Tampere, Finland, with his girlfriend Maria and a growing list of pending
household chores.


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2.0 out of 5 stars Good but if you're on Ruby 2.2.2 forget it, 13 May 2009
By Richard Smith "Richard G. Smith" (Winchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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The book is really good and very well thought out and professional. However if you are on Ruby 2.2.2 a lot of the code doesn't work and is done the wrong way around which I discovered to my disappointment and had to bail out at chapter three.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A quick way to pick up Ruby on Rails, 12 Feb 2008
By R. Parussel (Isle of Portland, Dorset) - See all my reviews
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This book is essentially a thorough tutorial that will teach you how to write an e-commerce website of your own. This was my first Ruby on Rails book and I found it invaluable. Ruby on Rails is too a broad to learn by picking through a reference manual; however, the tutorial structure of this book helps the reader focus on the essential building blocks that they will need.

If you've never seen the Ruby language before then you will need an accompanying book to introduce you to the syntax and teach you some of the common Ruby 'tricks'. You'll also need access to a good Rails reference as well. (There are a couple of good ones on-line).

There are a number of errors in the book's code examples. If you take the time to understand everything that the book teaches you then you should be able to fix the vast majority of them and and work around the rest. You'll deepen your understanding in the process. Alternatively, you could download the listings from the website.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for an intro to Test Driven Development, 20 Nov 2007
By David D. Madden (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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If you have played around with Rails, but need a little bit of help with how to improve your applications then this might be the book.

Does not really spend too much time explaining Rails or Ruby so if you are a beginner this may not be for you, but if you are looking for the next step this is a good place to start.

The book tracks the development of an online store and gives a good feel for how you should go about building and testing it.

Again a number of the topics assume that you have some knowledge of the subject mater and complete beginners could get lost quite quickly.

Also there are a small number of bugs in the code examples, but corrections are available from the books website and it does provide you with a few extra non-intentional debugging exorcises to get your teeth into.

Good rails book.
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