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Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition
The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and
using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new
approach to web-based application development that enables
developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based
applications using less code and less effort. Now
programmers can get the job done right and
still leave work
on time.
NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION: The book has been updated to take
advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features. The sample
application uses migrations, Ajax, features a REST
interface, and illustrates new Rails features. There are new
chapters on migrations, active support, active record, and
action controller (including the new resources-based
routing). The Web 2.0 and Deployment chapters have been
completely rewritten to reflect the latest thinking. Now you
can learn which environments are best for your style
application, and see how Capistrano makes managing your site
simple. All the remaining chapters have been extensively
updated. Finally, hundreds of comments from readers of the
first edition have been incorporated, making this book
simply the best available.
Rails is a full-stack, open source web framework that
enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based
applications with a twist...you can create a full Rails
application using less code than the setup XML you'd need
just to configure some other frameworks.
With this book, you'll learn how to use Rails Active Record
to connect business objects and database tables. No more
painful object-relational mapping. Just create your
business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn
how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming
requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and
components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks
to send emails, talk to web services, and interact
dynamically with JavaScript applications running in the
browser (the "Ajax" architecture).
You'll see how easy it is to deploy Rails. You'll be
writing applications that work with your favorite database
(MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all.
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