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Rails Cookbook is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range from the basics, like installing Rails and setting up your development environment, to the latest techniques, such as developing RESTful web services.
With applications that are code light, feature-full and built to scale quickly, Rails has revolutionized web development. The Rails Cookbook addresses scores of real-world challenges; each one includes a tested solution, plus a discussion of how and why it works, so that you can adapt the techniques to similar situations. Topics include:
- Modeling data with the ActiveRecord library
- Setting up views with ActionView and RHTML templates
- Building your application’s logic into ActionController
- Testing and debugging your Rails application
- Building responsive web applications using JavaScript and Ajax
- Ensuring that your application is security and performs well
- Deploying your application with Mongrel and Apache
- Using Capistrano to automate deployment
- Using the many Rails plugins
- Working with graphics
Whether you’re new to Rails or an experienced developer, you’ll discover ways to test, debug and secure your applications, incorporate Ajax, use caching to improve performance, and put your application into production. Want to get ahead of the Web 2.0 curve? This valuable cookbook will save you hundreds of hours when developing applications with Rails.
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If you like Cookbooks like I do I highly recommend you get this book. It’s not a huge book but it does a pretty good job with what it does cover. I gave it 4 stars because I wish it had more recipies especially with ActionView. Also, I found some deprecated code in the Application Testing chapter. Good Documention and sample code is Rails biggest weakness right now.
Neil
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
I read a pre-release version of this book and was very impressed with the quality and breadth of the content. Rob Orsini and the various other contributors appear to really know their stuff and have a solid grasp of the technology involved. For someone fairly new to Rails or someone who needs a reference for the occasional hint on how to proceed in an unfamiliar area, this book will provide them what they need.
In the interest of full disclosure: I was a tech reviewer for this book, but did not receive any monetary compensation (I may be receiving a copy of the book, but that’s it) for it and receive nothing for posting this review.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Now that I’ve encountered a few recipies books, I have to admit I’m in love with the format. I proves very practical and much easier to use.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
This book was probably extremely helpful to people starting out with Rails three or four years ago. However, Rails has changed significantly now and the code in this book is now out of date. This is especially true of the plugins it recommends. It is probably safe to assume that buying books on Rails that are more than two years old will mean relearning much of the content.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
The “Rails Cookbook” is a very useful book for the working programmer.
Programming is all about solving problems, and that is exactly what this book is about. Each “Recipe” contains the problem, the solution and a discussion about the solution. They are concise without being too vague to be useful.
The book contains almost 200 of these problems / solutions.
This probably wouldn’t be a good introduction to the language or the framework, but if you already are familiar with both – this book is a very valuable tool to help you get your work done.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5