Print Book $39.95
By Patrick Lenz
Second Edition
May 2008
Publisher: SitePoint
Pages: 450
ISBN 10: 0-9804552-0-0 |
ISBN 13: 9780980455205
Press Release
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails 2.0, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world?
This practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will show you, step-by-step, how to build an exciting Web 2.0 application, covering everything from from installing the required software on your computer to building, testing, debugging and deploying your application to a live server. By the end of this book, you'll know exactly how to turn your big idea into a live, fully-featured web application.
Full Description
The 2nd edition of this practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will walk you through installing the required software on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer. And before you get coding, an entire chapter is devoted to object oriented programming in Ruby, so you'll be completely confident with the Ruby language before you begin working with Rails.
The example application that the book builds - a user-generated news web site - is built upon with each following chapter, and concepts such as sessions, cookies and basic AJAX usage are gradually introduced. Different aspects of Rails, such as user authentication, session cookies, and automated testing are explored with each feature that is added to the application.
The book finishes with chapters on debugging, benchmarking and deployment to a live web server.
By the end of the book, you'll have built a fully-featured Web 2.0 application and deployed it to the Web. And all code is up-to-date for Rails 2.0, so you can begin coding immediately with the latest version of Rails.
Featured customer reviews
Great Beginner Book, May 14 2008
After deciding to teach myself Ruby on Rails I first bought "Agile Web Development with Rails" from the Pragmatic Programmers. However by the time I got the book Rails 2.0 had already been released and the examples in the book were outdated. I scoured the net and Simply Rails 2 seemed to be the only book available for the new Rails release. So far I am extremely satisfied. It's a great book for people new to the platform, and does a good job of hitting all the basics. I've almost completed the entire sample application (a social bookmarking app) and so far I've only encountered one minor issue (good job reviewers/editors!). The writing style is very clear and straightforward, and the format of the examples is great.
If I were to have one gripe about the book it's that it spends a little too much time writing tests. I know this is important for application development and a good habit to get into, but when you're running tests to check your markup I think it's going a little overboard. I would have rather seen more advanced material, and perhaps a tutorial on subversion and capistrano.
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