Rails : up and running / Bruce A. Tate, Lance Carlson, and Curt Hibbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tate, Bruce, 1965-

Contributor:

Carlson, Lance.

Hibbs, Curt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruby (Computer program language).

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

2011.

Cambridge ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly Media, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In just a matter of days, you can develop powerful web applications with Rails that once took weeks or months to produce with other web frameworks. If that sounds too good to be true, it isn't. Find out for yourself with Rails: Up and Running, the concise and popular book that not only explains how Rails works, but guides you through a complete test drive. Perfect for beginning web developers, this thoroughly revised edition teaches you the basics of installing and using Rails 2.1 and the Ruby scripting language. While Rails is praised for its simplicity, there are still a few

Contents:

Rails: Up and Running; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Platforms; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; 1. Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails; Organization; The Web Server; nginx; Mongrel; WEBrick; Other web servers; Creating a Controller; Building a View; Tying Controller Data to the View; Under the Hood; What's Next?; 2. Scaffolding, REST, and Routes; Preparing Your Project and Database; Generating a Resource Scaffold; RESTful Routes; REST; The Controller Code; Wrapping Up the Scaffolding; What's Next?; 3. Active Record Basics; A Brief Example

Generating ModelsBasic Active Record Classes; The Rails Console; Attributes; Identifiers; Complex Classes; Composition; Behavior; Validation; Transactions; Conversions; Moving Forward; 4. Active Record Relationships; has_many; has_one; has_and_belongs_to_many; acts_as_list; Trees; What You Haven't Seen; Looking Ahead; 5. Working with Views; Seeing Real Photos; View Templates; Setting the Default Root; Stylesheets; Hierarchical Categories; Styling the Slideshows; Creating the Stylesheet; 6. Ajax; Playing a Slideshow; Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides

Drag-and-Drop Everything (Almost Everything)Filtering by Category; 7. Testing; Ruby's Test::Unit; Testing in Rails; Fixtures; Unit tests; Functional tests; Test Coverage; Mocking with Mocha; Assertions and Integration Tests; Integration Tests; Wrapping Up; A. Installing Rails; Ruby on Rails; Mongrel; SQLite; RadRails; OS X; Linux; B. Quick Reference; Supported Web Servers; Supported Databases; Integrated Development Environments (IDEs); Commercial; Editors; Debugging; Create a New Rails Application; Testing; Functional Tests; Redirects; Rendered with template; Variable assignments

Rendering of specific tagsIntegration Tests; More on Testing; Generators; Plug-ins; RJS (Ruby JavaScript); Active Record; Associations; Association Join Models (As Shown in Figure B-3); Validations; Calculations; Finders; Scope; Named scope; Acts; Callbacks; Observers; Migration; Controllers; Controller Methods; Render; Action; Partials; Templates; Files; Text; Inline Template; RJS; Change content_type; Redirects; Nothing; URL Routing; Filter; Session/Flash; Cookies; Reading; Deleting; Views; html.erb; xml.erb; RJS; Helpers; Links; HTML Forms; Text fields; Text area; Radio button; Checkbox

OptionsDate and time; end_form tag; Layouts; Partials; Ajax; Callbacks; Ajax Forms; Autocompleting Text Field; Observe Field; Observe Form; periodically_call_remote; Configuring Your Application; Caching Configuration; Index; Colophon

Notes:

Includes index.

Originally published: as Ruby on Rails. 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596156138

0596156138

9780596554170

0596554176

OCLC:

609840684