The CodeIgniter Handbook - Vol. 1 Who Needs Ruby?

by Jamie Rumbelow, Laura Parrott (Illustrator)

The CodeIgniter Handbook, a three-volume handbook full to the brim with pragmatic, succinct, useful information from one of the web’s pioneering developers. Learn about the whats & whys of writing cleaner, more concise code. Discover fascinating new techniques that allow you to remove duplication, increase your programming efficiency, and reduce those repetitive tasks. Fall in love with CodeIgniter all over again.

Ruby on Rails has become immensely popular immensely quickly, widely praised for promoting elegant syntax, rapid development speed and its controversial Convention Over Configuration pattern. In this book CodeIgniter really begins to show its flexibility as we take a look at what makes Rails popular and how we can implement those features in a CodeIgniter-friendly way. We’ll look at tidying up your code by studying design principles like Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY), and using RESTful style controllers to provide a consistent URL pattern across the application.

89 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2012

Reviews

[Dan Delaney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been writing applications with CodeIgniter for years and still found new ideas and ways of doing things that will help in my day-to-day design decisions from this work. Followed up by Vol 2, this is an excellent book for anyone who uses CodeIgniter, or wants to know what it is all about.

Bravo, Jamie.