Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

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<div><p>Ruby on Rails is the super-productive new way to develop full-featuredweb applications. With Ruby on Rails, powerful web applications thatonce took weeks or months to develop can now be produced in a matter ofdays. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn't.</p><p>If you're like a lot of web developers, you've probably consideredkicking the tires on Rails - the framework of choice for the newgeneration of Web 2.0 developers. <i>Ruby on Rails: Up and Running</i> takes you out for a test drive and shows you just how fastRuby on Rails can go.</p><p>This compact guide teaches you the basics of installing and using boththe Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework for the quickdevelopment of web applications. <i>Ruby on Rails: Up andRunning </i> covers just about everything youneed - from making a simple database-backed application toadding elaborate Ajaxian features and all the juicy bits in between.While Rails is praised for its simplicity and speed of development,there are still a few steps to master on the way. More advancedmaterial helps you map data to an imperfect table, traverse complexrelationships, and build custom finders. A section on working with Ajaxand REST shows you how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to sendemails, implement web services, and create dynamic user-centric webpages. The book also explains the essentials of logging to findperformance problems and delves into other performance-optimizingtechniques.</p><p>As new web development frameworks go, Ruby on Rails is the talk of thetown. And <i>Ruby on Rails: Up and Running</i> can makesure you're in on the discussion.</p></div>