Ruby on Rails Power!: The Comprehensive Guide

by Aneesha Bakharia

Overview

Ruby on Rails is a feature-rich, easy to learn, and powerful web application framework that makes creating sophisticated, full featured web applications a snap. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, anyone can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if they're new to web programming. Ruby on Rails Power! is a comprehensive introduction to both the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework, providing you with everything you need to author the next successful Web 2.0 application. It starts with the basics: installing Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and MySQL, and building a simple application in Rails. Then, since the Ruby on Rails framework is powered by the Ruby language, the book moves on to cover the basics of Ruby, making the learning curve for Ruby on Rails much easier to navigate. From there, the fundamentals everyone needs to develop a robust web application in Rails are covered in depth, from creating an interface to create, retrieve, update and delete records in a database with the Rails scaffold generator, to understanding the Model View Controller paradigm (Active Record, Action Controller and Action View) and using web services, AJAX, and Adobe Flex. By the end of the book, youÂ'll have created numerous applications in Rails, including a blog, a wiki, and a forum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598632170
Publisher:	Course Technology PTR
Publication date:	01/04/2007
Series:	Power!
Sold by:	CENGAGE LEARNING
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Aneesha Bakharia is a web developer and accomplished author who specializes in creating dynamic database-driven web sites. She has a bachelor of engineering degree in Microelectronic Engineering and various postgraduate qualifications in multimedia, online course development, and web design. In addition to Ruby on Rails Power!, she has written several other books for Course Technology PTR, including Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Dreamweaver UltraDev Fast & Easy Web Development, JavaServer Pages Fast & Easy Web Development, and Microsoft C# Fast & Easy Web Development. Bakharia is fluent in C#, Java, JavaScript, ASP.NET, JSP, HTML, XML, Ruby,
Ruby on Rails, and VB.NET. She lives in Queensland, Australia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Ruby Essentials Chapter 3: Prototyping Database-Drive Applications with Rails Chapter 4: Active Record Chapter 5: Action Controller Chapter 6: Action View Chapter 7: Web Services and RESTful Applications Chapter 8: AJAX Rails Chapter 9: Flex on Rails Chapter 10: E-Mail, Image Processing, and Graphing Chapter 11: Rails Plug-Ins Chapter 12: Filters, Caching and Active Support Chapter 13: Testing and Debugging Chapter 14: Designing Rails Applications Appendix A: Ruby Quick Reference Appendix B: Ruby on Rails Quick Reference