Beginning Ruby on Rails

by Steven Holzner

Ruby on Rails is the revolutionary online programming tool that makes creating functional e-commerce web sites faster and easier than ever. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, you can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if you're new to web programming.

You will find a thorough introduction to both Ruby and Rails in this book. You'll get the easy instructions for acquiring and installing both; understand the nature of conditionals, loops, methods, and blocks; and become familiar with Ruby's classes and objects. You'll learn to build Rails applications, connect to databases, perform necessary testing, and put the whole thing together to create real-world applications such as shopping carts and online catalogs--apps you can actually use right away.

What you will learn from this book
* How to install and use Ruby and Rails
* Object-oriented programming with Ruby
* Rails fundamentals and how to create basic online applications
* How to work with HTML controls, use models in Rails applications, and work with sessions
* Details on working with databases and creating, editing, and deleting database records
* Methods for handling cookies and filters and for caching pages
* How to connect Rails with Ajax

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to develop online applications using Ruby and Rails. A basic understanding of programming is helpful; some knowledge of HTML is necessary.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Genres: Programming, Software, Technical

408 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2006

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome intro to Rails; coming from a strong oo php background, I can definitely see how this framework would be a great one in which to start a new project.

[Ileana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the structure of the book, theory well explained, clear and easy to follow, but the exercises in Rails were very frustrating for a beginner like me because they are outdated and never worked.

[Mikulas Dite · Rating 1 out of 5]

To the translation: paths like '/hele/tady/', mixing czech and english in the code and translating terms such as `controller` without specifying the original term and many more problems made me stop reading this book after few chapters.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good introduction to Ruby on Rails with MySQL. Very easy to follow with lots of hands on exercises.

[Luis Murillo]

If you know anything about programming you'll fly through half of this book in the first couple of days. Overall a good resource, but definitely not definitive.