By Rob Orsini
First Edition
January 2007
Pages: 534
Series: Cookbooks
ISBN 10: 0-596-52731-4 |
ISBN 13: 9780596527310
(Average of 3 Customer Reviews)
This book is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range from the basics, like installing Rails and setting up your development environment, to the latest techniques, such as developing RESTful web services. Each recipe includes a tested solution, plus a discussion of how and why it works.
Full Description
With applications that are code light, feature-full and built to scale quickly, Rails has revolutionized web development. The Rails Cookbook addresses scores of real-world challenges; each one includes a tested solution, plus a discussion of how and why it works, so that you can adapt the techniques to similar situations. Topics include:
- Modeling data with the ActiveRecord library
- Setting up views with ActionView and RHTML templates
- Building your application's logic into ActionController
- Testing and debugging your Rails application
- Building responsive web applications using JavaScript and Ajax
- Ensuring that your application is security and performs well
- Deploying your application with Mongrel and Apache
- Using Capistrano to automate deployment
- Using the many Rails plugins
- Working with graphics
Whether you're new to Rails or an experienced developer, you'll discover ways to test, debug and secure your applications, incorporate Ajax, use caching to improve performance, and put your application into production. Want to get ahead of the Web 2.0 curve? This valuable cookbook will save you hundreds of hours when developing applications with Rails.
Featured customer reviews
Good book but too many misprints..., May 25 2007
An exceptionally useful and good book.
The only drawback seems to be the number of printing mistakes - just the correction of the misprints will make another book as thick.
Anyone wanting to buy this book, wait for the next edition - especially beginners. It makes for a very frustating reading with all the misprints.
Rails Cookbook Review, May 21 2007
The 'Rails Cookbook' is exceptionally organized to help all developers to easily identify never before considered solutions. It can assist beginners and experts alike. As I develop increasingly complex Ruby/Rails applications, I find myself often running to this reference material. This material will be an essential item in any developers libray.
a quick reference, March 05 2007
It is a very nice book.
Its like a reference book
Media reviews
"Rails Cookbook is everything I hoped it would
be...concise, relevant, up-to-date, useful for both beginner and
expert. Even better, it's a real group effort with recipes from many
of my favorite members of the Rails community. "
-- Geoffrey Grosenbach, Host of the Ruby on Rails Podcast
"By chapter three I knew that I'd recommend this book to people
starting out in Rails. It covers the basics needed to really begin
Rails development right. At the same time, by including sections on
more advanced topics like testing and RESTful development, the
cookbook gives a stepping off point from which to improve their own
design techniques."
-- Kevin Clark, http://glu.ttono.us
"This is a great book to have by your side after you’ve been through one or two of the core books and are building your first real application. More experienced developers will know much of the material in this book, but they’ll also find it valuable when looking for a quick start using a feature they haven’t tackled yet."
-- Michael Slater, Technology for Humans
