Beginning Rails 4

by Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr, Rida Al Barazi

Overview

Beginning Rails 4 is a book that will guide you from never having programmed with Ruby, to having a Rails application built and deployed to the web. You’ll learn how to combine all the components of Rails to develop your own web applications. You will use test driven development to make sure your application works exactly like you expect.

You will learn how to use Git for source control and best practice techniques to create applications like a pro. Essential, and often-missed, information on testing and learning to program with Ruby are also covered.

This book is well suited for someone with little to no Ruby or Rails experience, or possibly even someone with no experience developing web applications at all. Beginning Rails 4 does assume a basic familiarity with the web and typical web terms, but doesn’t require you to be an expert of these. This book will springboard your journey into web application development, and show you how much fun building web applications with Ruby on Rails can be.

• Learn to create Rails applications from the bottom up
• Learn the basics of the Ruby programming language
• Completely updated for Rails 4, including new information on turbo links, etc.

Beginning Rails 4 gently guides you through designing your application, writing tests for the application, and then writing the code to make your application work as expected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430260356
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	01/20/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Adam Gamble is a professional web developer currently workingfor Isotope 11 in Birmingham, AL. He has over 10 years experience building webapplications for everything from startups to multiple Fortune 500 companies.His passion for technology has enabled him to turn a hobby into a career thathe loves.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing the Rails Framework
2. Getting Started
3. Getting Something Running
4. Introduction to the Ruby Language
5. Working with a Database: Active Record
6. Advanced Active Record: Enhancing Your Models
7. Action Pack: Working with the View and the Controller
8. Advanced Action Pack
9. JavaScript and CSS
10. Sending and Receiving Email
11. Testing Your Application
12. Internationalization
13. Deploying Your Rails Applications
14. Appendix A: Databases 101
15. Appendix B: The Rails Community
16. Appendix C: Git