Agile Web Development with Rails,
Third Edition by David Hansson
Agile Web Development With Rails -- A Deeper Dive
You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack,
open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional,
and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of
code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release
management. But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails makes
it both fun and easy to turn out very cool web applications. Need Ajax
support, so your web applications are highly interactive? Rails has it built
in. Want an application that sends and receives e-mail? Built in. Supports
internationalization and localization? Built in. Do you need applications with
a REST-based interface (so they can interact with other RESTful
applications with almost no effort on your part)? All built-in. With this
book, youll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and
database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create
your business objects and let Rails do the rest. Need to create and modify
your schema? Migrations make it painless (and theyre versioned, so you

can roll changes backward and forward). Youll 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, implement web services, and create dynamic,
user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There is
extensive coverage of testing, and the rewritten Deployment chapter now
covers Phusion Passenger. As with the previous editions of the book, we
start with an extended tutorial that builds parts of an online store. And, of
course, the application has been rewritten to show the best of Rails V2.
Personal Review: Agile Web Development with Rails, Third
Edition by David Hansson
Bought this to learn Rails with no prior Rails understanding to speak of.
I've decided to purchase the book after trying to get up and running using
just web-available resources. There's no comparison how fast you can
learn rails with this book vs. how long it will take you if you insist using only
online tutorials or other online material.
The book starts with a simple (but not TOO simple :) shopping cart and
web based e-store example which lets you get and application up and
running on your computer in a couple of hours or so. It then delves into
details, improvements and modifications to the example.
I've used the book continuously for a couple of weeks to get to know the
fundamentals and then moved on to a more heavy development, but I still
find myself returning to it quite often to get better understanding of some
Rails details from time to time.
Although the book isn't organized as a reference book, I think at the
moment, it's the best choice available. (I've seen better references to
OTHER computer languages and software systems, but not for Rails)
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