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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Joining the Rails Community | |
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| Finding Documentation | |
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| Installing MySQL | |
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| Installing PostgreSQL | |
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| Installing Rails | |
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| Fixing Ruby and Installing Rails on OS X 10.4 Tiger | |
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| Running Rails in OS X with Locomotive | |
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| Running Rails in Windows with Instant Rails | |
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| Updating Rails with RubyGems | |
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| Getting Your Rails Project into Subversion | |
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| Rails Development | |
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| Creating a Rails Project | |
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| Jump-Starting Development with Scaffolding | |
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| Speeding Up Rails Development with Mongrel | |
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| Enhancing Windows Development with Cygwin | |
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| Understanding Pluralization Patterns in Rails | |
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| Developing Rails in OS X with TextMate | |
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| Cross-Platform Developing with RadRails | |
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| Installing and Running Edge Rails | |
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| Setting Up Passwordless Authentication with SSH | |
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| Generating RDoc for Your Rails Application | |
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| Creating Full-Featured CRUD Applications with Streamlined | |
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| Active Record | |
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| Setting Up a Relational Database to Use with Rails | |
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| Programmatically Defining Database Schema | |
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| Developing Your Database with Migrations | |
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| Modeling a Database with Active Record | |
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| Inspecting Model Relationships from the Rails Console | |
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| Accessing Your Data via Active Record | |
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| Retrieving Records with find | |
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| Iterating Over an Active Record Result Set | |
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| Retrieving Data Efficiently with Eager Loading | |
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| Updating an Active Record Object | |
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| Enforcing Data Integrity with Active Record Validations | |
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| Executing Custom Queries with find_by_sql | |
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| Protecting Against Race Conditions with Transactions | |
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| Adding Sort Capabilities to a Model with acts_as_list | |
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| Performing a Task Whenever a Model Object Is Created | |
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| Modeling a Threaded Forum with acts_as_nested_set | |
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| Creating a Directory of Nested Topics with acts_as_tree | |
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| Avoiding Race Conditions with Optimistic Locking | |
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| Handling Tables with Legacy Naming Conventions | |
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| Automating Record Timestamping | |
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| Factoring Out Common Relationships with Polymorphic Associations | |
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| Mixing Join Models and Polymorphism for Flexible Data Modeling | |
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| Action Controller | |
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| Accessing Form Data from a Controller | |
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| Changing an Application's Default Page | |
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| Clarifying Your Code with Named Routes | |
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| Configuring Customized Routing Behavior | |
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| Displaying Alert Messages with Flash | |
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| Extending the Life of a Flash Message | |
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| Following Actions with Redirects | |
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| Generating URLs Dynamically | |
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| Inspecting Requests with Filters | |
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| Logging with Filters | |
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| Rendering Actions | |
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| Restricting Access to Controller Methods | |
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| Sending Files or Data Streams to the Browser | |
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| Storing Session Information in a Database | |
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| Tracking Information with Sessions | |
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| Using Filters for Authentication | |
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| Action View | |
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| Simplifying Templates with View Helpers | |
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| Displaying Large Datasets with Pagination | |
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| Creating a Sticky Select List | |
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| Editing Many-to-Many Relationships with Multiselect Lists | |
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| Factoring Out Common Display Code with Layouts | |
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| Defining a Default Application Layout | |
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| Generating XML with Builder Templates | |
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| Generating RSS Feeds from Active Record Data | |
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| Reusing Page Elements with Partials | |
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| Processing Dynamically Created Input Fields | |
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| Customizing the Behavior of Standard Helpers | |
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| Creating a Web Form with Form Helpers | |
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| Formatting Dates, Times, and Currencies | |
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| Personalizing User Profiles with Gravatars | |
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| Avoiding Harmful Code in Views with Liquid Templates | |
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| Globalizing Your Rails Application | |
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| Restful Development | |
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| Creating Nested Resources | |
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| Supporting Alternative Data Formats by MIME Type | |
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| Modeling Relationships Restfully with Join Models | |
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| Moving Beyond Simple CRUD with Restful Resources | |
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| Consuming Complex Nested Rest Resources | |
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| Developing Your Rails Applications Restfully | |
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| Rails Application Testing | |
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| Centralizing the Creation of Objects Common to Test Cases | |
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| Creating Fixtures for Many-to-Many Associations | |
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| Importing Test Data with CSV Fixtures | |
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| Including Dynamic Data in Fixtures with ERb | |
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| Initializing a Test Database | |
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| Interactively Testing Controllers from the Rails Console | |
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| Interpreting the Output of Test::Unit | |
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| Loading Test Data with YAML Fixtures | |
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| Monitoring Test Coverage with rake stats | |
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| Running Tests with Rake | |
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| Speeding Up Tests with Transactional Fixtures | |
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| Testing Across Controllers with Integration Tests | |
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| Testing Controllers with Functional Tests | |
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| Examining the Contents of Cookie | |
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| Testing Custom and Named Routes | |
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| Testing HTTP Requests with Response-Related Assertions | |
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| Testing a Model with Unit Tests | |
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| Unit Testing Model Validations | |
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| Verifying DOM Structure with Tag-Related Assertions | |
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| Writing Custom Assertions | |
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| Testing File Upload | |
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| Modifying the Default Behavior of a Class for Testing by Using Mocks | |
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| Improving Feedback by Running Tests Continuously | |
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| Analyzing Code Coverage with Rcov | |
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| JavaScript and Ajax | |
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| Adding DOM Elements to a Page | |
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| Creating a Custom Report with Drag and Drop | |
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| Dynamically Adding Items to a Select List | |
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| Monitoring the Content Length of a Textarea | |
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| Updating Page Elements with RJS Templates | |
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| Inserting JavaScript into Templates | |
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| Letting a User Reorder a List | |
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| Autocompleting a Text Field | |
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| Searching for and Highlighting Text Dynamically | |
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| Enhancing the User Interface with Visual Effects | |
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| Implementing a Live Search | |
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| Editing Fields in Place | |
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| Creatingan Ajax Progress Indicator | |
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| Action Mailer | |
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| Configuring Rails to Send Email | |
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| Creating a Custom Mailer Class with the Mailer Generator | |
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| Formatting Email Messages Using Templates | |
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| Attaching Files to Email Messages | |
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| Sending Email from a Rails Application | |
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| Receiving Email with Action Mailer | |
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| Debugging Rails Applications | |
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| Exploring Rails from the Console | |
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| Fixing Bugs at the Source with Ruby -cw | |
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| Debugging Your Application in Real Time with the breakpointer | |
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| Logging with the Built-in Rails Logger Class | |
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| Writing Debugging Information to a File | |
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| Emailing Application Exceptions | |
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| Outputting Environment Information in Views | |
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| Displaying Object Contents with Exceptions | |
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| Filtering Development Logs in Real Time | |
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| Debugging HTTP Communication with Firefox Extensions | |
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| Debugging Your JavaScript in Real Time with the JavaScript Shell | |
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| Debugging Your Code Interactively with ruby-debug | |
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| Security | |
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| Hardening Your Systems with Strong Passwords | |
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| Protecting Queries from SQL Injection | |
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| Guarding Against Cross-Site Scripting Attacks | |
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| Restricting Access to Public Methods or Actions | |
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| Securing Your Server by Closing Unnecessary Ports | |
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| Performance | |
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| Measuring Web Server Performance with Httperf | |
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| Benchmarking Portions of Your Application Code | |
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| Improving Performance by Caching Static Pages | |
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| Expiring Cached Pages | |
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| Mixing Static and Dynamic Content with Fragment Caching | |
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| Filtering Cached Pages with Action Caching | |
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| Speeding Up Data Access Times with memcached | |
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| Increasing Performance by Caching Post-Processed Content | |
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| Hosting and Deployment | |
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| Hosting Rails Using Apache 1.3 and mod_fastcgi | |
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| Managing Multiple Mongrel Processes with mongrel_cluster | |
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| Hosting Rails with Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, and Mongrel | |
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| Deploying Rails with Pound in Front of Mongrel, Lighttpd, and Apache | |
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| Customizing Pound's Logging with cronolog | |
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| Configuring Pound with SSL Support | |
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| Simple Load Balancing with Pen | |
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| Deploying Your Rails Project with Capistrano | |
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| Deploying Your Application to Multiple Environments with Capistrano | |
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| Deploying with Capistrano When You Can't Access Subversion | |
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| Deploying with Capistrano and mongrel_cluster | |
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| Disabling Your Web Site During Maintenance | |
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| Writing Custom Capistrano Tasks | |
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| Cleaning Up Residual Session Records | |
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| Extending Rails with Plug-ins | |
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| Finding Third-Party Plug-ins | |
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| Installing Plug-ins | |
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| Manipulating Record Versions with acts_as_versioned | |
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| Building Authentication with acts_as_authenticated | |
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| Simplifying Folksonomy with the acts_as_taggable | |
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| Extending Active Record with acts_as | |
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| Adding View Helpers to Rails as Plug-ins | |
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| Uploading Files with file_column | |
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| Uploading Files with acts_as_attachment | |
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| Disabling Records Instead of Deleting Them with acts_as_paranoid | |
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| Adding More Elaborate Authentication Using the Login Engine | |
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| Graphics | |
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| Installing RMagick for Image Processing | |
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| Uploading Images to a Database | |
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| Serving Images Directly from a Database | |
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| Creating Resized Thumbnails with RMagick | |
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| Generating PDF Documents | |
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| Visually Displaying Data with Gruff | |
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| Creating Small, Informative Graphs with Sparklines | |
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| Migrating to Rails 1.2 | |
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| Index | |