Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers)
NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION: 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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106 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
seriously, this is the best technical textbook I've ever read
Not only is there a great framework to this textbook will introduce you to, but this is written in the perfect balance of interesting style and serious technical content along with compelling example that I've ever seen in any book. I give this...
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great book, wish it was Rails 2.0
This book is a great intro to Rails, very readable and easy to understand. It also seems fairly comprehensive. The only downside to this book is that it's not Rails 2.0, so a number of the examples are outdated or don't work with the latest...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 11, 2008 Type: User Review |
I recommend it
I love the framework, the Agile philosophy and I love how the book is structured: straightforward, practical, easy to follow, programmer-oriented.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 07, 2008 Type: User Review |
Don't buy this book
It does not reflect the current state of Rails at this time. A new version is supposed to come out in October 2008 that covers 2.0. If you get this version you will need to switch to an older version of Rails, otherwise you'll only get about 68...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 05, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great great great book!
This is classics!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great Reference
I didn't know that Rails 2.0.2 does a few things differently than described in the book. Overall, however, I found it to be a great reference, and with a little help from Google and friendly souls who write online tutorials, I was able to create...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great place to start with Rails
As you can tell from the other reviews, this is a great place to start learning Ruby on Rails, especially if you are new to programming and do not have an extensive background with more than one language/technology.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
The one Rails book to get
This is the second edition of the book and both are excellent. Of course there is no point in getting the old edition anymore. If you are looking for the fast track to learning Rails this is it. It walks you through the creation of a full featured...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great!
I wanted to learn something about RoR and this book is perfect!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
Agile Web Development with Rails
Do a rail install of version 2.6.4 first otherwise the scaffolding doesn't work. How to install scaffolding with a new rails version is not explained. Very good tutor and introduction to Ruby on Rails.
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