July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
12h 11m
English
book
RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails™
by Michael Hartl, Aurelius Prochazka
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Index
Abstraction, 311
for DRY, 30
Abstraction layers, 164–165
accept method
Friendship, 417–418
FriendshipController, 432
accept_one_side method, 418
Accepted friendships, 412
Access protection for pages
smart way, 152–154
stupid way, 150–151
testing, 155
ACID properties, 64
Action caching, 510
Action Mailer package, 389
configuration, 390–391
linking and delivering reminders, 392–395
password reminders, 391–392
testing reminders, 396–399
ActionController class, 77
Active Record
console tool, 52–53
fixtures, 306–308
searches, 309–311
sessions, 132–133
spec, 282
user model, 52
ActiveRecordStore method, 132
acts_as_ferret plugin, ...
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