Ruby on Rails : Up and Running,9780596101329

Ruby on Rails : Up and Running

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ISBN13: 9780596101329
ISBN10: 0596101325
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

"Ruby On Rails: Up and Running" covers everything thoroughly, from building a schema and making a simple controller to designing a Rails interface and building a project model - including details on how to add a controller and generate scaffolding. More advanced material is provided to help developers Map data to an imperfect table, traverse complex relationships, and build custom finders. A section on working with Ajax and REST shows them 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. This book also explains the essentials of logging to find performance problems and delves into other performance optimising techniques.

Author Biography

Bruce A. Tate is a kayaker, mountain biker, and father of two. In his spare time, he is an independent consultant in Austin, Texas. In 2001, he founded J2Life, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in Java persistence frameworks and lightweight development methods. His customers have included FedEx, Great West Life, TheServerSide, and BEA. He speaks at conferences and Java user's groups around the nation. Before striking out on his own, Bruce spent 13 years at IBM working on database technologies, object-oriented infrastructure, and Java. He was recruited away from IBM to help start the client services practice in an Austin startup called Pervado Systems. He later served a brief stint as CTO of IronGrid, which built nimble Java performance tools. Bruce is the author of five books, including the bestselling "Better, Faster, Lighter Java", "Beyond Java", and "Spring: A Developer's Notebook", all from O'Reilly.

Curt Hibbs is a senior software developer in St. Louis with more than 30 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list. With a keen (and always searching) eye for new methods and technologies to make his work easier and more productive, he has become very active in the Ruby development community.

Read his weblog at blog.curthibbs.us.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails
1(17)
Rails Strengths
2(1)
Putting Rails into Action
3(2)
Organization
5(1)
The Web Server
6(4)
Creating a Controller
10(3)
Building a View
13(2)
Tying the Controller to the View
15(1)
Under the Hood
16(1)
What's Next?
17(1)
Active Record Basics
18(18)
Active Record Basics
18(3)
Introducing Photo Share
21(1)
Schema Migrations
22(3)
Basic Active Record Classes
25(1)
Attributes
26(4)
Complex Classes
30(3)
Behavior
33(2)
Moving Forward
35(1)
Active Record Relationships
36(18)
belongs_to
37(3)
has_many
40(3)
has_one
43(9)
What You Haven't Seen
52(1)
Looking Ahead
53(1)
Scaffolding
54(11)
Using the Scaffold Method
54(3)
Replacing Scaffolding
57(3)
Generating Scaffolding Code
60(4)
Moving Forward
64(1)
Extending Views
65(26)
The Big Picture
65(2)
Seeing Real Photos
67(1)
View Templates
68(7)
Setting the Default Root
75(1)
Stylesheets
75(3)
Hierarchical Categories
78(6)
Styling the Slideshows
84(7)
Ajax
91(20)
How Rails Implements Ajax
91(1)
Playing a Slideshow
92(3)
Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides
95(4)
Drag and Drop Everything (Almost Everything)
99(7)
Filtering by Category
106(5)
Testing
111(18)
Background
111(1)
Ruby's Test::Unit
112(2)
Testing in Rails
114(12)
Wrapping Up
126(3)
Installing Rails 129(5)
Quick Reference 134(29)
Index 163

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