Ruby on Rails is a feature-rich, easy to learn, and powerful web application framework that makes creating sophisticated, full featured web applications a snap. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, anyone can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if they're new to web programming. Ruby on Rails Power! is a comprehensive introduction to both the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework, providing you with everything you need to author the next successful Web 2.0 application. It starts with the basics: installing Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and MySQL, and building a simple application in Rails. Then, since the Ruby on Rails framework is powered by the Ruby language, the book moves on to cover the basics of Ruby, making the learning curve for Ruby on Rails much easier to navigate. From there, the fundamentals everyone needs to develop a robust web application in Rails are covered in depth, from creating an interface to create, retrieve, update and delete records in a database with the Rails scaffold generator, to understanding the Model View Controller paradigm (Active Record, Action Controller and Action View) and using web services, AJAX, and Adobe Flex. By the end of the book, youÂ'll have created numerous applications in Rails, including a blog, a wiki, and a forum.
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Aneesha Bakharia is a web developer and accomplished author who specializes in creating dynamic database-driven web sites. She has a bachelor of engineering degree in Microelectronic Engineering and various postgraduate qualifications
in multimedia, online course development, and web design. In addition to Ruby on Rails Power!, she has written several other books for Course Technology PTR, including Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute
Beginner, Dreamweaver UltraDev Fast & Easy Web Development, JavaServer Pages Fast & Easy Web Development, and Microsoft C# Fast & Easy Web Development. Bakharia is fluent in C#, Java, JavaScript, ASP.NET, JSP, HTML, XML, Ruby,
Ruby on Rails, and VB.NET. She lives in Queensland, Australia.
in multimedia, online course development, and web design. In addition to Ruby on Rails Power!, she has written several other books for Course Technology PTR, including Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute
Beginner, Dreamweaver UltraDev Fast & Easy Web Development, JavaServer Pages Fast & Easy Web Development, and Microsoft C# Fast & Easy Web Development. Bakharia is fluent in C#, Java, JavaScript, ASP.NET, JSP, HTML, XML, Ruby,
Ruby on Rails, and VB.NET. She lives in Queensland, Australia.
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astonishing factual errors,
By pounding on the keyboard "wantaknow" (Bay area CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ruby on Rails Power!: The Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)
Here's some examples: page 182: "We need to type parameters our methods require and values they return because Ruby is a loosely typed language" "Yield is a variable" (in layouts). "REST web services are simply GET and POST requests". And it goes on and on.
In addition, the layout of the book makes it very difficult to read. Text, code and screenshots are just kind of slopped together, it's very fatiguing to follow. It was inevitable that with the explosion in Rails' popularity, some hastily slapped together books would appear. Here they come.
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This book is half-baked and needs to go back to the kitchen. Critical instructions are missing (even in the first chapter) and are often misleading or ambiguous. I did a lot of guess work to get through the first chapter. I will return this book in few hours.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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still doughy in the middle,
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Ruby on Rails power is an unfinished product. I checked the errata list on the publishers site and it is missing many errata items found just in the first 3 chapters alone. At the end of chapter 3, I am no longer willing to continue using this book because:
-Many obvious errata items. This book seems like a rough draft. I usually send authors the errata I find. In this case, errata in the book as well as the source code available on the publishers site is just too numerous. I am sorry to say that I would not reccomend this book in its present form. However, I believe this could be a a very good book with the neccessary revisions made.
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