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Ruby on Rails is the revolutionary online programming tool that makes creating functional e-commerce web sites faster and easier than ever. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, you can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if you're new to web programming.

You will find a thorough introduction to both Ruby and Rails in this book. You'll get the easy instructions for acquiring and installing both; understand the nature of conditionals, loops, methods, and blocks; and become familiar with Ruby's classes and objects. You'll learn to build Rails applications, connect to databases, perform necessary testing, and put the whole thing together to create real-world applications such as shopping carts and online catalogs--apps you can actually use right away.

What you will learn from this book
* How to install and use Ruby and Rails
* Object-oriented programming with Ruby
* Rails fundamentals and how to create basic online applications
* How to work with HTML controls, use models in Rails applications, and work with sessions
* Details on working with databases and creating, editing, and deleting database records
* Methods for handling cookies and filters and for caching pages
* How to connect Rails with Ajax

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to develop online applications using Ruby and Rails. A basic understanding of programming is helpful; some knowledge of HTML is necessary.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.


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Ruby on Rails is the revolutionary online programming tool that makes creating functional e-commerce web sites faster and easier than ever. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, you can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if you're new to web programming.

You will find a thorough introduction to both Ruby and Rails in this book. You'll get the easy instructions for acquiring and installing both; understand the nature of conditionals, loops, methods, and blocks; and become familiar with Ruby's classes and objects. You'll learn to build Rails applications, connect to databases, perform necessary testing, and put the whole thing together to create real-world applications such as shopping carts and online catalogs—apps you can actually use right away.

What you will learn from this book

  • How to install and use Ruby and Rails
  • Object-oriented programming with Ruby
  • Rails fundamentals and how to create basic online applications
  • How to work with HTML controls, use models in Rails applications, and work with sessions
  • Details on working with databases and creating, editing, and deleting database records
  • Methods for handling cookies and filters and for caching pages
  • How to connect Rails with Ajax

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to develop online applications using Ruby and Rails. A basic understanding of programming is helpful; some knowledge of HTML is necessary.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.


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3.0 out of 5 stars Ture Beginners Avoid This Book, Nov 3 2008
Beginning Ruby on Rails

If you're not a programmer and have no experience with MySql or sqlite, you may want to avoid this title if you're just starting out. The book is well written but is lacking in the details necessary for a "real beginner" to get anything out of it.

The very first "try it out" will not work as the author neglects to tell you that you need to have MySql or sqlite installed, there is only a brief mention of it at the beginning of the book saying that you'll need to install it, but he doesn't go into the installation or configuration. With the very first example you get the impression that you don't need to have it right away.

Once you get a handle on the database side of RoR you can then come back to this book and try it out. Wrox usually puts out pretty good manuals but this one is lacking in the "How to" department.

If you are a true beginner, seek out another Beginning RoR title and use it to supplement this one, or if you don't feel like spending the $$ just avoid it all together.
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