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Agile Web Development with Rails 4

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ISBN-10: 1937785564

ISBN-13: 9781937785567

Edition: 4th 2013

Authors: Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson

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Rails just keeps on changing. Both Rails 3 and 4, as well as Ruby 1.9 and 2.0, bring hundreds of improvements, including new APIs and substantial performance enhancements. The fourth edition of this award-winning classic has been reorganized and refocused so it's more useful than ever before for developers new to Ruby and Rails.Rails 4 introduces a number of user-facing changes, and the ebook has been updated to match all the latest changes and new best practices in Rails. This includes full support for Ruby 2.0, controller concerns, Russian Doll caching, strong parameters, Turbolinks, new test and bin directory layouts, and much more.Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality,…    
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Book details

List price: $43.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 458
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to the many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source projects, and to the standardization of web feeds via his involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular Feed Validator web service.He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Getting Started
Installing Rails
Installing on Windows
Installing on Mac OS X
Installing on Linux
Choosing a Rails Version
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Rails and Databases
Instant Gratification
Creating a New Application
Hello, Rails!
Linking Pages Together
The Architecture of Rails Applications
Models, Views, and Controllers
Rails Model Support
Action Pack: The View and Controller
Introduction to Ruby
Ruby Is an Object-Oriented Language
Data Types
Logic
Organizing Structures
Marshaling Objects
Pulling It All Together
Ruby Idioms
Building an Application
The Depot Application
Incremental Development
What Depot Does
Lets Code
Task A: Creating the Application
Iteration A1: Creating the Products Maintenance Application
Iteration A2: Making Prettier Listings
Task B: Validation and Unit Testing
Iteration B1: Validating!
Iteration B2: Unit Testing of Models
Task C: Catalog Display
Iteration C1: Creating the Catalog Listing
Iteration C2: Adding a Page Layout
Iteration C3: Using a Helper to Format the Price
Iteration C4: Functional Testing of Controllers
Iteration C5: Caching of Partial Results
Task D: Cart Creation
Iteration D1: Finding a Cart
Iteration D2: Connecting Products to Carts
Iteration D3: Adding a Button
Task E: A Smarter Cart
Iteration E1: Creating a Smarter Cart
Iteration E2: Handling Errors
Iteration E3: Finishing the Cart
Task F: Add a Dash of Ajax
Iteration F1: Moving the Cart
Iteration F2: Creating an Ajax-Based Cart
Iteration F3: Highlighting Changes
Iteration F4: Hiding an Empty Cart
Iteration F5: Making Images Clickable
Testing Ajax Changes
Task G: Check Out!
Iteration G1: Capturing an Order
Iteration G2: Atom Feeds
Task H: Sending Mall
Iteration H1: Sending Confirmation Emails
Iteration H2: Integration Testing of Applications
Task I: Logging In
Iteration I1: Adding Users
Iteration I2: Authenticating Users
Iteration I3: Limiting Access
Iteration I4: Adding a Sidebar, More Administration
Task J: Internationalization
Iteration J1: Selecting the Locale
Iteration J2: Translating the Storefront
Iteration J3: Translating Checkout
Iteration J4: Add a Locale Switcher
Task K: Deployment and Production
Iteration K1: Deploying with Phusion Passenger and MySQL
Iteration K2: Deploying Remotely with Capistrano
Iteration K3: Checking Up on a Deployed Application
Depot Retrospective
Rails Concepts
Documenting What We Have Done
Rails in Depth
Finding Your Way Around Rails
Where Things Go
Naming Conventions
Active Record
Defining Your Data
Locating and Traversing Records
Creating. Reading. Updating, and Deleting (CRUD)
Participating in the Monitoring Process
Transactions
Action Dispatch and Action Controller
Dispatching Requests to Controllers
Processing of Requests
Objects and Operations That Span Requests
Action View
Using Templates
Generating Forms
Processing Forms
Uploading Files to Rails Applications
Using Helpers
Reducing Maintenance with Layouts and Partials
Migrations
Creating and Running Migrations
Anatomy of a Migration
Managing Tables
Advanced Migrations
When Migrations Go Bad
Schema Manipulation Outside Migrations
Nonbrowser Applications
A Stand-Alone Application Using Active Record
A Library Function Using Active Support
Rails' Dependencies
Generating XML with Builder
Generating HTML with ERB
Managing Dependencies with Bundler
Interfacing with the Web Server with Rack
Automating Tasks with Rake
Survey of Rails' Dependencies
Rails Plugins
Credit Card Processing with Active Merchant
Beautifying Our Markup with Haml
Pagination
FindingMoreatRailsPlugins.org
Where to Go from Here
Bibliography
Index