Rails 3 Way, Rough Cuts, The, 2nd Edition

Description

• Copyright 2011
• Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
• Pages: 704
• Edition: 2nd

• Rough Cuts
• ISBN-10: 0-13-248033-6
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-248033-8

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

The Rails™ 3 Way is a comprehensive resource that digs into the new features in Rails 3 and perhaps more importantly, the rationale behind them.
—Yehuda Katz, Rails Core

The Bible for Ruby on Rails Application Development

Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and maintainable code. The Rails™ 3 Way is the only comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 3. Pioneering Rails expert Obie Fernandez and a team of leading experts illuminate the entire Rails 3 API, along with the idioms, design approaches, and libraries that make developing applications with Rails so powerful. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience and track record, they address  the real challenges development teams face, showing how to use Rails 3 to maximize your productivity.

Using numerous detailed code examples, the author systematically covers Rails 3 key capabilities and subsystems, making this book a reference that you will turn to again and again. He presents advanced Rails programming techniques that have been proven effective in day-to-day usage on dozens of production Rails systems and offers important insights into behavior-driven development and production considerations such as scalability. Dive deep into the Rails 3 codebase and discover why Rails is designed the way it is—and how to make it do what you want it to do.

This book will help you

• Learn what’s new in Rails 3
• Increase your productivity as a web application developer
• Realize the overall joy in programming with Rails
• Leverage Rails’ powerful capabilities for building REST-compliant APIs
• Drive implementation and protect long-term maintainability using RSpec
• Design and manipulate your domain layer using Active Record
• Understand and program complex program flows using Action Controller
• Master sophisticated URL routing concepts
• Use Ajax techniques via Rails 3 support for unobtrusive JavaScript
• Learn to extend Rails with popular gems and plugins, and how to write your own
• Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and write your own
• Integrate email services into your applications with Action Mailer
• Improve application responsiveness with background processing
• Create your own non-Active Record domain classes using Active Model
• Master Rails’ utility classes and extensions in Active Support

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Foreword by David Heinemeier Hansson      xxxiii

Foreword by Yehuda Katz      xxxv

Introduction      xxxvii

Acknowledgments      xliii

About the Author      xlv

Chapter 1: Rails Environments and Configuration      1

1.1 Bundler   2

1.2 Startup and Application Settings   8

1.3 Development Mode   15

1.4 Test Mode   19

1.5 Production Mode   20

1.6 Logging   23

1.7 Conclusion   29

Chapter 2: Routing      31

2.1 The Two Purposes of Routing   32

2.2 The routes.rb File   33

2.3 Route Globbing   45

2.4 Named Routes   46

2.5 Scoping Routing Rules   50

2.6 Listing Routes   53

2.7 Conclusion   54

Chapter 3: REST, Resources, and Rails      55

3.1   REST in a Rather Small Nutshell   55

3.2   Resources and Representations   56

3.3   REST in Rails   57

3.4   Routing and CRUD   58

3.5   The Standard RESTful Controller Actions   61

3.6   Singular Resource Routes   64

3.7   Nested Resources 65

3.8   RESTful Route Customizations   69

3.9   Controller-Only Resources   74

3.10 Different Representations of Resources   76

3.11 The RESTful Rails Action Set   78

3.12 Conclusion   83

Chapter 4: Working with Controllers      85

4.1   Rack   86

4.2   Action Dispatch: Where It All Begins   88

4.3   Render unto View   92

4.4   Additional Layout Options   101

4.5   Redirecting   101

4.6   Controller/View Communication   104

4.7   Filters   105

4.8   Verification   111

4.9   Streaming   112

4.10 Conclusion   117

Chapter 5: Working with Active Record         119

5.1   The Basics    120

5.2   Macro-Style Methods    121

5.3   Defining

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