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. This book 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 plentiful detailed code examples, Obie systematically covers Rails 3 key capabilities and subsystems, making this book a reference that you will refer 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 together, discovering 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
Incorporate logins and authentication into your application
Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and write your own
Integrate email services into your applications with ActionMailer
Choose the right Rails production configuration
Streamline deployment with Capistrano
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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