Agile Web Development with Rails 4 / Edition 1 available in Paperback
Agile Web Development with Rails 4 / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1937785564
- ISBN-13:
- 9781937785567
- Pub. Date:
- 10/12/2013
- Publisher:
- Pragmatic Bookshelf
- ISBN-10:
- 1937785564
- ISBN-13:
- 9781937785567
- Pub. Date:
- 10/12/2013
- Publisher:
- Pragmatic Bookshelf
Agile Web Development with Rails 4 / Edition 1
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Overview
Rails 4 introduces a number of user-facing changes, and the ebook has been updated to match all the latest changes and new best practices in Rails. This includes full support for Ruby 2.0, controller concerns, Russian Doll caching, strong parameters, Turbolinks, new test and bin directory layouts, and much more.
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 Concerns, Russian Doll caching, and Turbolinks, and the book focuses throughout on the right way to use Rails. Additionally, this edition now works on Ruby 2.0, a new release of Ruby with substantial functional and performance improvements.
This edition is for Rails4.0 and beyond.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781937785567 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Pragmatic Bookshelf |
| Publication date: | 10/12/2013 |
| Edition description: | Fourth Edition |
| Pages: | 458 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Dave Thomas, as one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, understands agility. As the author of "Programming Ruby," he understands Ruby. And, as an active Rails developer, he knows Rails.
David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of the Rails framework.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part I Getting Started
1 Installing Rails 3
1.1 Installing on Windows 4
1.2 Installing on Mac OS X 4
1.3 Installing on Linux 6
1.4 Choosing a Rails Version 8
1.5 Setting Up Your Development Environment 9
1.6 Rails and Databases 12
2 Instant Gratification 15
2.1 Creating a New Application 15
2.2 Hello, Rails! 17
2.3 Linking Pages Together 24
3 The Architecture of Rails Applications 29
3.1 Models, Views, and Controllers 29
3.2 Rails Model Support 32
3.3 Action Pack: The View and Controller 34
4 Introduction to Ruby 37
4.1 Ruby Is an Object-Oriented Language 37
4.2 Data Types 39
4.3 Logic 43
4.4 Organizing Structures 45
4.5 Marshaling Objects 48
4.6 Pulling It All Together 49
4.7 Ruby Idioms 50
Part II Building an Application
5 The Depot Application 55
5.1 Incremental Development 55
5.2 What Depot Does 56
5.3 Lets Code 60
6 Task A: Creating the Application 61
6.1 Iteration A1: Creating the Products Maintenance Application 61
6.2 Iteration A2: Making Prettier Listings 68
7 Task B: Validation and Unit Testing 77
7.1 Iteration B1: Validating! 77
7.2 Iteration B2: Unit Testing of Models 82
8 Task C: Catalog Display 91
8.1 Iteration C1: Creating the Catalog Listing 91
8.2 Iteration C2: Adding a Page Layout 96
8.3 Iteration C3: Using a Helper to Format the Price 100
8.4 Iteration C4: Functional Testing of Controllers 101
8.5 Iteration C5: Caching of Partial Results 104
9 Task D: Cart Creation 107
9.1 Iteration D1: Finding a Cart 107
9.2 Iteration D2: Connecting Products to Carts 108
9.3 Iteration D3: Adding a Button 110
10 Task E: A Smarter Cart 119
10.1 Iteration E1: Creating a Smarter Cart 119
10.2 Iteration E2: Handling Errors 124
10.3 Iteration E3: Finishing the Cart 128
11 Task F: Add a Dash of Ajax 135
11.1 Iteration F1: Moving the Cart 136
11.2 Iteration F2: Creating an Ajax-Based Cart 142
11.3 Iteration F3: Highlighting Changes 146
11.4 Iteration F4: Hiding an Empty Cart 149
11.5 Iteration F5: Making Images Clickable 152
11.6 Testing Ajax Changes 154
12 Task G: Check Out! 159
12.1 Iteration G1: Capturing an Order 159
12.2 Iteration G2: Atom Feeds 172
13 Task H: Sending Mall 177
13.1 Iteration H1: Sending Confirmation Emails 177
13.2 Iteration H2: Integration Testing of Applications 184
14 Task I: Logging In 191
14.1 Iteration I1: Adding Users 191
14.2 Iteration I2: Authenticating Users 197
14.3 Iteration I3: Limiting Access 202
14.4 Iteration I4: Adding a Sidebar, More Administration 204
15 Task J: Internationalization 211
15.1 Iteration J1: Selecting the Locale 211
15.2 Iteration J2: Translating the Storefront 215
15.3 Iteration J3: Translating Checkout 222
15.4 Iteration J4: Add a Locale Switcher 229
16 Task K: Deployment and Production 233
16.1 Iteration K1: Deploying with Phusion Passenger and MySQL 234
16.2 Iteration K2: Deploying Remotely with Capistrano 242
16.3 Iteration K3: Checking Up on a Deployed Application 248
17 Depot Retrospective 253
17.1 Rails Concepts 253
17.2 Documenting What We Have Done 256
Part III Rails in Depth
18 Finding Your Way Around Rails 261
18.1 Where Things Go 261
18.2 Naming Conventions 270
19 Active Record 275
19.1 Defining Your Data 275
19.2 Locating and Traversing Records 280
19.3 Creating. Reading. Updating, and Deleting (CRUD) 284
19.4 Participating in the Monitoring Process 298
19.5 Transactions 304
20 Action Dispatch and Action Controller 309
20.1 Dispatching Requests to Controllers 309
20.2 Processing of Requests 319
20.3 Objects and Operations That Span Requests 330
21 Action View 341
21.1 Using Templates 341
21.2 Generating Forms 343
21.3 Processing Forms 346
21.4 Uploading Files to Rails Applications 348
21.5 Using Helpers 351
21.6 Reducing Maintenance with Layouts and Partials 358
22 Migrations 367
22.1 Creating and Running Migrations 367
22.2 Anatomy of a Migration 370
22.3 Managing Tables 375
22.4 Advanced Migrations 379
22.5 When Migrations Go Bad 382
22.6 Schema Manipulation Outside Migrations 383
23 Nonbrowser Applications 385
23.1 A Stand-Alone Application Using Active Record 385
23.2 A Library Function Using Active Support 386
24 Rails' Dependencies 393
24.1 Generating XML with Builder 393
24.2 Generating HTML with ERB 395
24.3 Managing Dependencies with Bundler 397
24.4 Interfacing with the Web Server with Rack 400
24.5 Automating Tasks with Rake 404
24.6 Survey of Rails' Dependencies 405
25 Rails Plugins 411
25.1 Credit Card Processing with Active Merchant 411
25.2 Beautifying Our Markup with Haml 413
25.3 Pagination 416
25.4 FindingMoreatRailsPlugins.org 418
26 Where to Go from Here 421
A1 Bibliography 423
Index 425