Agile Web Development with Rails, 4th Edition

Ruby on Rails helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications quickly. You concentrate on creating the application, and Rails takes care of the details.

Tens of thousands of developers have used this award-winning book to learn Rails. It’s a broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference that’s recommended by the Rails core team. If you’re new to Rails, you’ll get step-by-step guidance. If you’re an experienced developer, this book will give you the comprehensive, insider information you need.

Rails has evolved over the years, and this book has evolved along with it. We still start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and in-depth chapters look at the built-in Rails features. This edition now gives new Ruby and Rails users more information on the Ruby language and takes more time to explain key concepts throughout. Best practices on how to apply Rails continue to change, and this edition keeps up. Examples use cookie backed sessions, HTTP authentication, and Active Record-based forms, and the book focuses throughout on the right way to use Rails. Additionally, this edition now reflects Ruby 1.9, a new release of Ruby with substantial functional and performance improvements.

Updated for Rails 3.2
Rails 3.1 and Rails 3.2 introduce many user-facing changes, and this e-book release has been updated to match all the latest changes and new best practices in Rails 3.1 and Rails 3.2. This includes full support for Ruby 1.9.2 hash syntax; incorporation of the new Sprockets 2.0 Asset Pipeline, including SCSS and CoffeeScript; jQuery now being the default; reversible migrations; JSON response support; Rack::Cache, and much more.

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started
1. Installing Rails
2. Instant Gratification
3. The Architecture of Rails Applications
4. Introduction to Ruby

Part II: Building an Application
5. The Depot Application
6. Task A: Creating the Application
7. Task B: Validation and Unit Testing
8. Task C: Catalog Display
9. Task D: Cart Creation
10. Task E: A Smarter Cart
11. Task F: Add a Dash of Ajax
12. Task G: Check Out!
13. Task H: Sending Mail
14. Task I: Logging In
15. Task J: Internationalization
16. Task K: Deployment and Production

Part III: Rails in Depth
18. Finding Your Way Around Rails
19. Active Record
20. Action Dispatch and Action Controller
21. Action View
22. Caching
23. Migrations
24. Nonbrowser Applications
25. Rails’ Dependencies
26. Rails Plugins
27. Where to Go from Here

Book Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 4th Edition (March 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934356549
• ISBN-13: 978-1934356548