Foundation Rails 2

Eldon Alameda

ISBN 10: 1430210397 / ISBN 13: 9781430210399

Published by Apress, Apress Okt 2008, 2008

About this Item

This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Rails is a phenomenally popular framework for building web applications. This book is specifically written for the latest release of Rails (Rails 2 released December 2007). It covers the fundamentals of Rails programming from the ground up in the successful Foundation style. It is written in a friendly and approachable manner for web developers rather than being a dry programming book.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 484 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foundation Rails 2
• Publisher: Apress, Apress Okt 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1430210397
• ISBN 13: 9781430210399
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 191H x 27D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 191 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 895 grams

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Synopsis

You've heard about this amazing web framework called Ruby on Rails that's taken the world by storm, but thought it was way too complex for you? Think again.

Foundation Rails 2 takes you through your first steps in Rails, explaining in plain English how to start building dynamic web applications. And there's never been a better time to jump in to the Rails world, as the release of Rails 2 was a major evolutionary leap forward from previous versions.

Unlike other Rails books, this book doesn't throw you into the deep end right away in the hopes that you'll learn to swim. Instead, we'll start out with the basics and continually expand your knowledge until, by the end of the book, we're building a Rails application with dynamic features such as user registration, geocoding, filtering results with AJAX, RSS feeds, and an XML interface. Meanwhile, we'll talk about the important issues that other books often leave out such as testing your application's code, securing your application from hackers, optimizing your code for the best performance, and of course, deploying your application.

This book takes a focused approach to guiding you through understanding how the pieces of Rails work individually and how they fit together. Instead of emphasizing boring theoretical discussions, Foundation Rails 2 lets you get your hands dirty with the framework and learn the hows and whys of Rails faster than ever.

We start with a tour of what makes Rails special and why you need to learn it, move into a gentle introduction to the high points of programming in Ruby, and then take a tour of a sample Rails application. Next, we dig deeper into the core components of Rails before building a complete Rails application together. By the end of this book, not only will you know how to build Rails applications but you'll understand the reasons behind what you do.

About the Author

Eldon Alameda is a web developer who currently resides in the harsh climates of Kansas. He works as a regional webmaster for the U.S. National Weather Service; prior to this, he did development for a variety of companies including local start-ups, advertising firms, Sprint PCS, and IBM. During the 1990s, he also acquired a nice stack of worthless stock options from working for dot-com companies.