Beginning Rails From Novice to Professional

Name: Beginning Rails From Novice to Professional
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ISBN: 9781590596869

ISBN-10: 1590596862

ISBN-13: 9781590596869

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jeffrey Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro, Hampton Catlin, David Rupp, Jeffrey Allan Hardy

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Beginning Rails is the practical starting point for anyone wanting to learn how to build dynamic web applications using the Rails framework for Ruby. Yoursquo;ll learn how all of the components of Rails fit together and how you can leverage them to create sophisticated web applications with less code and more joy. This book is particularly well suited to those with little or no experience with web application development, or who have some experience but are new to Rails. Beginning Rails assumes basic familiarity with web terms and technologies, but doesn't require you to be an expert. Topics include: A gentle introduction to the Ruby programming language Installing Ruby and Rails on a…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Apress L. P.
Publication date: 10/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 361
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Hampton Catlin was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1982, on a sunny day with highs in the mid-80s and only a 20% chance of precipitation. He has been developing web applications since high school and fell in love with the Web all over again when he found the Rails framework. The creator of the Haml markup language and Sass (Haml for CSS), Hampton blogs at http://hamptoncatlin.com and is currently a partner at Unspace Interactive in Toronto.



About the Authors


About the Technical Reviewer


Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



Introducing the Rails Framework


The Rise and Rise of the Web Application


The Web Is Not Perfect


The Good Web Framework


Enter Rails


Rails Is Ruby


Rails Encourages Agility


Rails Is Opinionated Software


Rails Is Open Source


The MVC Pattern


The MVC Cycle


The Layers of MVC


The Libraries That Make Up Rails


Rails Is No Silver Bullet


Summary



Getting Started


An Overview of Rails Installation


Installing on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger


Installing the Apple Developer Tools (Xcode)


Installing MySQL


Adding MySQL to Your Path


Installing Ruby


Installing RubyGems


Installing Rails


Automating Installation


Installing on Windows XP


Installing MySQL


Installing Ruby


Installing Rails


Installing on Linux


Installing MySQL


Installing Ruby


Installing RubyGems


Installing Rails


Creating Your First Rails Application


Starting the Built-In Web Server


Generating a Controller


Creating an Action


Creating a Template


Summary



Getting Something Running


An Overview of the Project


Creating the Events Application


Creating the Project Databases


Creating the Event Model


Creating a Database Table


Generating a Controller


Up and Running with Scaffolding


Adding More Fields


Adding Validations


Generating a Scaffold


Summary



Working with a Database: Active Record


Introducing Active Record: Object-Relational Mapping on Rails


What About SQL?


Active Record Conventions


Introducing the Console


Active Record Basics: CRUD


Creating New Records


Reading (Finding) Records


Updating Records


Deleting Records


When Good Models Go Bad


Summary



Advanced Active Record: Enhancing Your Models


Adding Methods


Using Associations


Declaring Associations


Creating One-to-One Associations


Creating One-to-Many Associations


Applying Association Options


Creating Many-to-Many Associations


Creating Rich Many-to-Many Associations


Building Conditions for Advanced Finding


Using a Conditions Hash


Using a SQL Fragment


Using an Array


Using Association Proxies


Applying Validations


Building Custom Validation Methods


Using Built-in Validations


Making Callbacks


Reviewing the Updated Models


Updating the User Model


Summary



Action Pack: Working with the View and the Controller


Action Pack Components


Action Controller


Action View


Embedded Ruby


Helpers


Routing


The Action Pack Request Cycle


A Controller Walk-Through


Setting Up Routes


Generating a Controller


Creating a Template


Working with Layouts


Creating a Registration Form


Using Form Helpers


Processing Request Parameters


Writing a Create Action


Rendering Responses


Redirecting


Displaying Error Messages in Templates


Adding the Edit Form


Staying Dry with Partials


Adding the Login and Logout Actions


Improving the Events Controller and Templates


Cleaning Up the Events Controller


Using Partials in the Events Templates


Adding Categories to the Events Form


Handling Categories in the Events Controller


Using Controller Filters


Requiring Authentication with Filters


Applying Filters to Controllers


Adding Finishing Touches


Using Action View Helpers


Escaping HTML in Templates


Formatting a Description Field


Adding Edit Controls


Adding Custom Helpers


Giving It Some Style


Summary



Improving Interaction with Ajax


Ajax and Rails


Prototype and Helpers


JavaScript Libraries


Using Ajax Helpers


Making Remote Calls with link_to_remote


Posting Forms Remotely with form_remote_tag


Polling for Changes with observe_field and observe_form


Using script.aculo.us Helpers


Implementing Auto-Completion


Adding an In-Place Editor


Adding Visual Effects


Using RJS Templates


Implementing RJS in Templates


Implementing RJS in the Controller


Summary



Sending and Receiving Mail


Setting Up Action Mailer


Configuring Mail Server Settings


Configuring Application Settings


Sending Email


Handling Basic Email


Sending HTML Email


Adding Multiple Parts to Messages


Adding Attachments


Sending Incoming Email to a Rails Process


Summary



Testing Your Application


How Rails Handles Testing


Unit Testing Your Rails Application


Testing the Event Model


Testing Validations


Functional Testing Your Controllers


Testing the Events Controller


Creating a Test Helper


Running the Functional Test Suite


Integration Testing


Integration Testing the Events Application


Story-Based Testing


Running the Full Test Suite


Measuring Test Coverage with Rcov


Summary



Extending Rails with Plugins


Finding and Installing Plugins


Finding Plugins


Installing Plugins


Using a Plugin in Our Application


Modifying the Database


Modifying the Application to Use the Plugin


Creating Your Own Plugin


Making the Plugin Available to Applications


Creating the Plugin Module


Updating the Controller and Views


Summary



Deploying Your Rails Applications


Deploying with Capistrano


Capistrano Installation


Capistrano Recipes


Capistrano on the Deployment Server


Custom Capistrano Tasks


Setting Up Your Server Architecture


Monolithic Architecture


Proxy-Cluster Server: The New Kid on the Block


Becoming an Instant Deployment Expert


Summary



Ruby, a Programmer's Best Friend


Instant Interaction


Ruby Types


Strings


Numbers


Symbols


Arrays and Hashes


Language Basics


Variables


Operators


Blocks and Iterators


Control Structures


Methods


Classes and Objects


Objects


Classes


Ruby Documentation



Databases 101


Examining a Database Table


Working with Tables


Selecting Data


Inserting Data


Updating Data


Deleting Data


Understanding Relationships


SQL and Active Record



The Rails Community


Rails Mailing Lists


Rails IRC Channel


Rails Blogs and Podcast


Rails Wiki


Rails APIs


Rails Trac


Working with Rails Directory


Index