Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7 EAN: 9780321480798 ISBN: 0321480791 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 537 Publication Date: July 30, 2007 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Sales Rank: 115252 Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster.
Inside, the authors walk you step by step from the creation of the site's virtually static front page, through user registration and authentication, and into a highly dynamic site, complete with user profiles, image upload, email, blogs, full-text and geographical search, and a friendship request system. In the process, you learn how Rails helps you control code complexity with the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, abstraction layers, automated testing, and code refactoring, allowing you to scale up to a large project even with a small number of developers.
This essential introduction to Rails provides
A tutorial approach that allows you to experience Rails as it is actually used
A solid foundation for creating any login-based website in Rails
Coverage of newer and more advanced Rails features, such as form generators, REST, and Ajax (including RJS)
A thorough and integrated introduction to automated testing
The book's companion website provides the application source code, a blog with follow-up articles, narrated screencasts, and a working version of the RailSpace social network.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Great Intro to Ruby on Rails
If you're thinking about getting this then stop now and just do it. It's a great introduction to RoR that is fun and practical.
Simply put, you construct a really simple social network with the book. I'm only half finished with it, but the stuff I've learned will be invaluable on other projects. The author sprinkles in some humor the whole way along.
One of the really great things is the testing and refactoring of code. They show you how to do something quickly and then ... Read More
Rating: - Mediocre for an experienced coder
I found this book frustrating. About 70 pages into the the tutorial I realized I was monkey-typing and had no real idea what was going on -- things were happening, but I didn't understand *why*. I abandoned the book for another in the same series (The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series). That book is easily twice as long and does nothing but introduce Rails, and although it was a hard slog to read I found it a much, much better introduction to the technology -- and possibly more importantly ... Read More
Rating: - Doesn't work with Rails 2.0
Buy this book at your own risk. It doesn't work with Rails 2.0 and even the author's updates (on the website) that supposedly makes it Rails 2.0 compatible doesn't work. I have yet to make it past page 19 even after doing the author's updates.
Rating: - Greatg starter book for RoR
This book is teriffic. I started my journey into RoR by buying the two canonical starter books, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide and Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition. These are solid, rich repositories of information, but I was still having trouble understanding many concepts and techniques. Then I got this book. Concepts that had eluded me or been difficult suddenly became clear and intuitive. These authors really lead you by the hand through elements of RoR that may be unfamiliar ... Read More
Rating: - Smacks of zealotry
You know you're in trouble when a nerd draws comparisons between anything on his computer and sex, and that's unfortunately what happens in the first few paragraphs of this book's introduction. That sort of attitude--which is later parroted mindlessly by the inexperienced schoolchildren who come to idolize their IRC superiors--is also what makes a lot of people hate Rails. It's an MVC framework, not the second coming.
Nevertheless, there are times when it is simply the best tool for the job--like when you're ... Read More
- Great Intro to Ruby on Rails
- Mediocre for an experienced coder
- Doesn't work with Rails 2.0
- Smacks of zealotry
