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.
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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.
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Book details
First Edition: January 2007
Series:
Cookbooks
ISBN: 0-596-52731-4
Pages: 534
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 3 Reviews)
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
"Rob Orsini released the new Rails Cookbook from O’Reilly, just in time for Rails 1.2. Just from looking at the table of contents, it looks like there’s a lot of good information packed in this book. This book is packed with the solutions you need to be proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. "
-- Rick Olson, Riding Rails
"Almost immediately [the book] started to pay for itself...The recipe’s are logically organized and there are A LOT of them: 15 Chapters (560+ pages) dealing with every aspect of Rails you can imagine...the sheer wealth of information in this resource can not be understated. And the content spans subjects at various difficulty levels from 'I built my whole app using scaffold!' to 'I’m getting a free ticket to Railsconf.'"
-- Mark Carey, Kognitive Jelly
"I am sure that even expert rails developers will find something very useful that they didn't know. Again this book will give you so many pointers on how to make your app running smooth and with more features that you'd normally think about. The best part is that is rails 1.2 compliant"
-- Diego Scataglini, RubyCon
"After attending CodeMash and sitting in on a few great sessions around both Ruby and Rails, I decided to start using Ruby as my primary scripting language and I made a commitment to play around some more with Rails. The best resource that I’ve had had in both of these situations are each respective cookbook from O’Reilly...it’s been wonderful just skimming the books and getting a grasp on the capabilities and common tasks for each one. I’ve found out a lot about how to effectively use Ruby and I’ve found many capabilities that I didn’t think that were possible (at least easily) with Rails. These books are both great resources, superbly written, and deserve a place on your bookshelf. "
-- Ben Carey, The Sherpa Project
"Rails Cookbook will guide you through the traps and pitfalls of Rails development by providing you with the building blocks of source code to make any Rails application complete. The book will be an essential addition to your programming library."
-- T. Michael Testi, Blogcritics.org
"...a guide packed with recipes for success from the basics of installing and using Rails to the latest applications. Learn how to work with an application's logic, how to test and debit a Rails application, and use Rails plug-ins with Rails Cookbook: Applications for Rapid Web Development with Ruby, which covers version 1.2 and will reach both programmers and serious programming libraries."
-- James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review
"The strong point of the Rails Cookbook is its breadth. It provides a lot of examples...Rails Cookbook does not go into as much depth of explanation as the recipes in Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler. But that is okay. There are more of them and most of the time I’m not reading the explanations as much as looking for code samples. In that way, Rails Cookbook is great."
-- Steve Odom, Niblets
