Professional Ruby Collection: Mongrel, Rails Plugins, Rails Routing, Refactoring to REST, and Rubyisms CD1 [Hardcover]

James Adam (Author), David A. Black (Author), Trotter Cashion (Author), Jacob Harris (Author), Matt Pelletier (Author), Zed Shaw (Author)

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Publication Date: August 5, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0132417995 | ISBN-13: 978-0132417990

GET STRAIGHT TO THE LEADING EDGE WITH RUBY AND RAILS
Information that’s so hot, new, and valuable, you can’t wait for a book. This package brings together 8 breakthrough primers on today’s most valuable Ruby and Rails technologies -- including five new digital Short Cuts worth $69.95! From RailsSpace to ActiveRecord to Mongrel, here’s new content, techniques, and code from the Ruby community’s top innovators: insider’s information that’s never been available before in one place.

On the CD-ROM: 5 brand-new digital Short Cuts...

• Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications, by Matt Pelletier and Zed Shaw
• Rails Plugins: Extending Rails Beyond the Core, by James Adam
• Rails Routing, by David A. Black
• Rails Refactoring to Resources: Using CRUD and REST in Your Rails Application, by Trotter Cashion
• Rubyisms in Rails, by Jacob Harris

PLUS, PRINTED BONUS CONTENT INCLUDES

• Working with Active Record (from the forthcoming Addison-Wesley book The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez)
• RESTful Blogs (from RailsSpace by Michael Hartl and Aurelius Prochazka)
• OOP and Dynamic Features in Ruby (from The Ruby Way, Second Edition, by Hal Fulton)

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About the Author

Matt Pelletier is a partner at EastMedia, a software, mobile, and business development firm. He is also cofounder of NYC.rb, the New York City Ruby group.

 

Zed Shaw is the original and primary author of Mongrel.

 

David A. Black is Director, Ruby Power and Light, LLC and also Co-Director, Ruby Central, Inc. He is the bestselling author of Ruby for Rails.

 

Trotter Cashion is an application developer at motionbox.com, a Rails-based video sharing site.

 

Dr. James Adam is the developer behind the Engines plugin.

 

Jacob Harris is a web developer for New York Times Digital.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (August 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0132417995
• ISBN-13: 978-0132417990
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 1 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,423,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars New content and code come from Ruby innovators and programmers and provide tips on subsystems, October 5, 2007

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This review is from: Professional Ruby Collection: Mongrel, Rails Plugins, Rails Routing, Refactoring to REST, and Rubyisms CD1 (Hardcover)

James Adam, et.al.'s PROFESSIONAL RUBY COLLECTION pairs a cd-rom of digital shortcuts with a package which joins eight breakthrough insight on today's Ruby and Rails technologies. New content and code come from Ruby innovators and programmers and provide tips on subsystems, lean code development, plugin extensions and much more.