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You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management.

But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails makes it both fun and easy to turn out very cool web applications. Need Ajax support, so your web applications are highly interactive? Rails has it built in. Want an application that sends and receives e-mail? Built in. Supports internationalization and localization? Built in. Do you need applications with a REST-based interface (so they can interact with other RESTful applications with almost no effort on your part)? All built-in.

With this book, you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. Need to create and modify your schema? Migrations make it painless (and they're versioned, so you can roll changes backward and forward). You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There is extensive coverage of testing, and the rewritten Deployment chapter now covers Phusion Passenger.

As with the previous editions of the book, we start with an extended tutorial that builds parts of an online store. And, of course, the application has been rewritten to show the best of Rails V2.

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Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to the many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source projects, and to the standardization of web feeds via his involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular Feed Validator web service.He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM. He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pragmatic Bookshelf; Third edition (April 7, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 850 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1934356166
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934356166
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.24 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 1.33 x 9 inches

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David Heinemeier Hansson is the cofounder of Basecamp and NYT bestselling coauthor of REWORK and REMOTE. He's also the creator of the software toolkit Ruby on Rails, which has been used to launch and power Twitter, Shopify, GitHub, Airbnb, Square, and over a million other web applications. Originally from Denmark, he moved to Chicago in 2005, and now lives between the US and Spain with his wife and two sons. In his spare time, he enjoys 200-mph race cars in international competition, taking cliche pictures of sunsets and kids, and ranting far too much on Twitter.
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I'm a programmer, and now I'm an accidental publisher.
I wrote The Pragmatic Programmer with Andy Hunt at the end of the '90s, and that experience opened a new world for us. We discovered a love of writing that complemented our love of learning new things.
I'm one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and I'm probably responsible for bringing Ruby to attention of Western developers with the book Programming Ruby. I was one of the first adopters of Rails, and helped spread the word with the book Agile Web Development with Rails.
I enjoy speaking at conferences, running public and private training. But most of all, I love coding.
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jessecurry

This is *the* book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2009

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There's not really too much to say other than this is the book to buy. Lots of great examples, written in an accessible format, and no steep learning curves like you see in a lot of programming books.
Plus, this is the book endorsed by the people behind Rails.

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Brian L. Donat

Agile Extreme on Rails

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It's a good text, but it might be recommended that an Agile Development specific book be read, either beforehand or concurrently, while evolving the knowledge imparted in these pages. "The Art of Agile Development" by James Shore is a good compliment to this reading. Agile of course, does not only apply to Ruby and Rails, but Ruby and Rails are uniquely fashioned to promote Agile techniques. Prior Rails books do not illuminate this connection so well as this one does, if at all. As such, it can be more highly recommended to learn rails via this book as it exposes this connection through-out. As a context sensitive framework, rails can be learned to the degree of exposing just that much, or ... one might learn how to use rails in an fully iterative and collaborative development environment. That statement should clarify the import of this book. One might claim that there is a right way to learn Rails and well then too, the old way. Learn it the right way, using Agile Development practices. One quickly notes that Agile is not just a management tool, but a programmer's development methodology. In fact it transcends many development functions, from product management to testing, final release and continued maintenance and support. Rails as a framework, is enhanced by an understanding of how it fits with Agile. This book goes miles toward making that clear.

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Epsilon Delta

a lot of fragments of do this and do that

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2009

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the feel i get from the pragmatic guide on Rails is: do this and do that. It gives you a lot of fragments of knowledge, without a very complete big picture, and without a complete explanation of what's going on. I tend to learn from the big picture and then going down to the details, and understand why in each step, so this book is not for me.

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Sanjay Gupta

Amazing introduction to rails which focuses on fast developer productivity

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2010

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This is absolutely one of the best books for an introduction to RoR. I have primarily been a C++ programmer for a while who is generally suspicious of many and most things related to web development. About six months back I decided to broaden my horizons a little bit and started reading this book.

I was pleasantly surprised by the book organization which illustrated very well the concepts of Convention over Configuration(CoC) so inherent to rails. It provided a fast introduction to Ruby programming language and in no time I had a near professional demo web application working for me.

Reading this book has been an interesting experience. Something I hope will be useful in my professional life. Keep up the good work !!

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Michael Montagne

EXCELLENT

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2010

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I bought this together with "The Ruby Programming Language" (Flanagan and Matsumoto). They're not the solve-all, best-of-all-solutions by which a Ruby neophyte can jump to the top of the ladder... but they're about as good as we're going to find. An indispensable initial pair of books, which for my own purposes (with a 30-year background in C, C++, C#, Delphi, and dozens of other tools), got me off the ground and headed in the more advanced directions I needed to go to develop what is an extremely sophisticated first Ruby implementation. I could probably write a better book myself now, but sorry... lacking that, this is where you need to start.

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Work in Progress.

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I was lead to believe this was a book to help you with creating applications.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2010

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I picked up this book after reading a different Rails book. The other book was okay, but left me with a lot of questions. That is not the case with this book.

The first section of the book is real basic while you build an e-commerce application. The second half of the book shines. It goes into great detail about the framework, and how all the different aspects of Rails tie together.

I would recommend this book to anyone looking into Rails. Newbie or intermediate.

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Matterhorn

Good to start with real world app

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 10, 2013

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A "must" in order to start with rails development (there are new versions of the book, so this one has become obsolete)

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M. Hodgins

A good read for all developers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 6, 2009

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Not only is this a great introduction to the marvelous Rails framework, it is also an easy read. Technical authors can learn a lot from this book on how to write quality 'how to' books. I'll also say that even if you don't intend to use Ruby and Rails for your web developement, this book is still useful; I use PHP but I've taken a lot of the ideas from this book and applied them my work.

bookworm

great resource for experienced oo programmers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 25, 2009

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This is a well written book and should get you off to a good start using rails if you are an experienced OO programmer and have a working knowledge of ruby.

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