Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications

By Patrick Lenz

Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world? This practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will walk you through installing the required software on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer. And before you get coding, an entire chapter is devoted to object oriented programming in Ruby, so you'll be completely confident with the Ruby language before you begin working with Rails. The example application that the book builds - a user-generated news web site - is built upon with each following chapter, and concepts such as sessions, cookies and basic AJAX usage are gradually introduced. Different aspects of Rails, such as ActiveRecord, migrations and automated testing are explored with each feature that is added to the application. The book finishes with chapters on debugging, benchmarking and deployment to a live web server. By the end of the book, you'll have built a fully-featured Web 2.0 application and deployed it to the Web. And all code is up-to-date for Rails 1.2, so you can begin coding immediately with the latest version of Rails. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975841955
• ISBN13: 9780975841952
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Sitepoint
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

More helpful to me than Pragmatic Programmers book

I've read both this book and Agile Web Development with Rails published by Pragmatic Programmers. Although this book has more errors, I found it to be easier to follow along with and the examples to be more practical. Agile Web Development uses an e-commerce catalog as the sample web app whereas this book uses a digg clone - more practical to developers today I think. Here are some other reasons why I prefer this book: - Agile...

Good book for beginners, you've gotta to hold on to it however.

I liked the book. I think it gets the point through to an RoR beginner. It does not pretend to cover everything. I applaud the emphasis on testing that Patrick has throughout. A word of advice for the reader: Hold on to the book through some chapters, like I believe chapter 8. Sometimes Patrick goes for pages without allowing you to try things out or check how the app looks. if you hold on however, things end up working out...

Superb introductory/intermediate book on Rails

First and foremost, I would like to thank both Patrick and previous reviewers for supplying such instrumental material to get me up and running with Rails. I had begun to read 'Agile Web Development With Rails' and found myself asking 'Why?' several times in response to explanations given throughout the tutorial. I realized after getting about halfway through the tutorial that I was learning Rails, but perhaps not as effectively...

Hands-down the best intro to Rails book on the market

I'm a college instructor looking for a text to use in an Introduction to web development course. I've now worked through about a half-dozen beginners Rails books and this one is by far the best. The Shovell project is wonderful at demonstrating common design patterns found in web application. The coding structure is of the highest quality and the focus on testing really captures what good Rails development is all about. ...

The best of the current crop of Ruby and Rails introductory texts

All I can say is WOW!!! I am a Ruby and Rails Newbie and I have been searching for an introductory text to both Ruby and Rails for several weeks. For context, I have moderate programming language (but minimal web development) experience. I purchased the following texts (in order): Agile Web Development With Rails, Rails Solutions, Ruby For Rails, and Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications. Each has it's strengths,...