March 2006
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
11h 21m
English
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Chapter 7. Work with Ajax and Ruby on Rails
If you haven’t yet worked with Ruby on Rails ( RoR), you’re in for a great treat. Ruby on Rails is a web
development framework that makes it very easy to create database-driven
web applications. (A framework is a software structure that provides
developers with scripts, packages, and objects with which they can build
their own applications.) Ruby on Rails uses the programming language
Ruby, including an embedded version of Ruby for HTML or XML
templates that is similar to JavaServer Pages (JSP) or PHP.
Rails is the name of the framework (or set of
packages, such as the ActionController
class) that programmers use to develop web applications with this
toolkit.
Tip
The first edition of a Ruby programming book can be found here: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/. You can find another Ruby tutorial at http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/.
Ruby on Rails can run on the Apache web server and another open source server called lighttpd; it also has a handy built-in web server, WEBrick, which we will use in this chapter. Ruby on Rails only found its way into the general development community in the summer of 2004. However, its ease of use, elegant design, and numerous built-in features—such as Ajax and virtually automated object-relational mapping (ORM) with many popular databases—have impressed the software developer crowd. Prototyping a functional database-driven web application using RoR is faster and more efficient ...
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