How to Read This Book

The first part of this book makes sure you’re ready. By the time you’re done with it, you’ll have been introduced to Ruby (the language), you’ll have been exposed to an overview of Rails, you’ll have Ruby and Rails installed, and you’ll have verified the installation with a simple example.

The next part takes you through the concepts behind Rails via an extended example: we build a simple online store. It doesn’t take you one by one through each component of Rails (such as “here’s a chapter on models, here’s a chapter on views,” and so forth). These components are designed to work together, and each chapter in this section tackles a specific set of related tasks that involve a number of these components working together. ...

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