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Rails 3 Way, The, 2nd Edition
- By Obie Fernandez
- Published Dec 10, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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Description
- Copyright 2011
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-60166-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60166-7
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
Extras
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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