The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) | Obie Fernandez

The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) | Obie Fernandez | Best I've seen (which isn't to say it's great)

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The Rails Way (Add...

	The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) Obie Fernandez Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007 - 912 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications

Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value. Now, for the first time, there?s a comprehensive, authoritative guide to building production-quality software with Rails. Pioneering Rails developer Obie Fernandez and a team of experts illuminate the entire Rails API, along with the Ruby idioms, design approaches, libraries, and plug-ins that make Rails so valuable. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, they address the real challenges development teams face, showing how to use Rails? tools and best practices to maximize productivity and build polished applications users will enjoy.

Using detailed code examples, Obie systematically covers Rails? key capabilities and subsystems. He presents advanced programming techniques, introduces open source libraries that facilitate easy Rails adoption, and offers important insights into testing and production deployment. Dive deep into the Rails codebase together, discovering why Rails behaves as it does? and how to make it behave the way you want it to.

This book will help you

Increase your productivity as a web developer

Realize the overall joy of programming with Ruby on Rails

Learn what?s new in Rails 2.0

Drive design and protect long-term maintainability with TestUnit and RSpec

Understand and manage complex program flow in Rails controllers

Leverage Rails? support for designing REST-compliant APIs

Master sophisticated Rails routing concepts and techniques

Examine and troubleshoot Rails routing

Make the most of ActiveRecord object-relational mapping

Utilize Ajax within your Rails applications

Incorporate logins and authentication into your application

Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and write your own

Integrate email services into your applications with ActionMailer

Choose the right Rails production configurations

Streamline deployment with Capistrano

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The Essential Guide

This is *the* rails book to get. Even if you're an experienced Rails developer, you'll find loads of great information and advice. The real-world examples are really helpful. Includes an excellent tour through the framework itself. This is one of the few Rails books that covers testing well. Obie is obviously a Jedi.

Best I've seen (which isn't to say it's great)

I picked this up purely on the basis of Zed Shaw's endorsement of Mr. Fernandez as one of the few non-stupid Rails proponents out there, and for the most part I'd agree with these sentiments. While it is completely unsuitable for anyone who is completely new to web development or the Ruby language, it is very suitable for anyone else who wants to skip all the evangelical sycophantry that plagues other Rails related titles and jump straight into the meat of the framework.

I still don't like a lot of things about Rails, and I don't like a lot of things about this book, but it is by far the least painful way to get acquainted with the project I've seen to date, allowing the reader to formulate their own educated opinion on these matters relatively quickly.

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Good one

Good reference book for the beginning user. May confuse those that are learning on rails 2.x.

2.0 coverage?

This seems to have comprehensive coverage of rails/ruby, but may lack the Rails 2.0 coverage I expected. It feels a bit like they threw in some 2.0 updates in order to be able to put "Covers RAILS 2.0" on the cover. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

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