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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.117
EAN: 9780977616633
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0977616630
Label: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Manufacturer: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: December 14, 2006
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Studio: Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications using less code and less effort. Now programmers can get the job done right and still leave work on time.
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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This book is very good, but I strongly SUGGEST and cannot hardly STRESS ENOUGH for every newbie with Ruby on Rails -- LEARN RUBY FIRST.
I am telling you, this will benefit thousand times later when you start developing.
At the moment I am writing this review this 2nd edition of the books is outdated, as we have even Rails 3 coming soon. ;-)
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This book was written over two years ago for version 1.2. The current version of Rails is 2.2. There are many things in this book that simply won't work. I got up to page 67 to find out that the $40 I paid for this book was a waste of money. Amazon should stop selling this book. If you want to learn Rails, don't buy a book, because they will be obsolete. Look for online tutorials instead.
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A concise and accurate tutorial and reference to the Ruby on Rails framework.
Starting with the simple (and not very useful in real life..) "shopping cart" project the book demonstrates RoR web application fundamentals step by step. Shopping cart is a good, quick way to get acquainted with Rails if you are a newbie as I am.
When done building and playing with shopping cart you'll want to start designing your own ideas. Agile's following chapters include reference material which lets easily getting deeper understanding of how the framework is built and how it works. You'll find plenty of information of how to customize whatever you need to customize, as well as explanations of low level functions and APIs which are not used in the tutorial but may very well be used in more advanced applications.
Used to pretty good PHP online documentation available online I was hoping to learn RoR the same way, but RoR is different, and as far as I can tell there's ... Read More
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You can buy this second edition half price ($19.95) from publisher at
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails2/agile-web-development-with-rails
You can also get the third edition in PDF with hard copy to follow for 53.95 at
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with-rails-third-edition
The publisher says that the release date for the third edition is March 15, 2009.
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OK, I'm coming to rails late. I've played with Ruby on and off for about a year. I though it was a bit of a "kitchen sink" language until I got a good kick in the head by Neil Ford.
So this week I picked up this book (version 2) and I started reading it. It is, as far as technical books go, a page turner.
It gives a basic overview and the walks through an example as a tutorial.
I recommend you learn a little Ruby first (not necessary but makes working through the examples more focused on Rails rather than Ruby and Rails).
If you want to learn about Ruby on Rails and get an idea of what web development should be, read this book. THEN, the next time you need to start working on a site for a customer, sit down with them and start developing the site in real-time.
If they don't like Ruby, call it an "executable requirements description". Eventually, they might even think that the solution is good as is. If not, you still have ... Read More
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