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Ruby on Rails 2.3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example, Portable Documents
- By Michael Hartl
- Published Nov 1, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series series.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 720
- Edition: 1st
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-13-248802-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-248802-0
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The Ruby on Rails 2.3 Tutorial teaches web development with Ruby on Rails, an open-source web framework that powers many of the web's top sites, including Twitter, Hulu, and the Yellow Pages. Ruby on Rails 2.3 Tutorial helps you learn Rails by example through the development of a substantial sample application, including a site layout, a user data model, a full registration and authentication system, user-status associations, social "following," and a feed of status updates. Ruby on Rails 2.3 Tutorial also teaches good software development practices, including version control with Git and GitHub, test-driven development with RSpec, and instant deployment with Heroku. Though of necessity the book focuses on a specific sample application, the emphasis throughout this book is on general principles, so you will have a solid foundation no matter what kind of web application you want to build.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
About this Book xv
About the Author xvii
Chapter 1: From Zero to Deploy 1
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 Up and Running 9
1.3 Version Control with Git 23
1.4 Deploying 35
1.5 Conclusion 39
Chapter 2: A Demo App 41
2.1 Planning the Application 41
2.2 The Users Resource 44
2.3 The Microposts Resource 57
2.4 Conclusion 67
Chapter 3: Mostly Static Pages 69
3.1 Static Pages 71
3.2 Our First Tests 78
3.3 Slightly Dynamic Pages 93
3.4 Conclusion 104
3.5 Exercises 105
Chapter 4: Rails-Flavored Ruby 107
4.1 Motivation 107
4.2 Strings and Methods 112
4.3 Other Data Structures 121
4.4 Ruby Classes 132
4.5 Exercises 143
Chapter 5: Filling in the Layout 145
5.1 Adding Some Structure 145
5.2 Layout Links 163
5.3 User Signup: A First Step 171
5.4 Conclusion 177
5.5 Exercises 178
Chapter 6: Modeling and Viewing Users, Part I 181
6.1 User Model 182
6.2 User Validations 197
6.3 Viewing Users 213
6.4 Conclusion 223
6.5 Exercises 223
Chapter 7: Modeling and Viewing Users, Part II 225
7.1 Insecure Passwords 225
7.2 Secure Passwords 236
7.3 Better User Views 247
7.4 Conclusion 261
7.5 Exercises 263
Chapter 8: Sign Up 265
8.1 Signup Form 265
8.2 Signup Failure 273
8.3 Signup Success 285
8.4 RSpec Integration Tests 292
8.5 Conclusion 299
8.6 Exercises 300
Chapter 9: Sign In, Sign Out 303
9.1 Sessions 303
9.2 Signin Failure 310
9.3 Signin Success 317
9.4 Signing Out 334
9.5 Conclusion 343
9.6 Exercises 343
Chapter 10: Updating, Showing, and Deleting Users 345
10.1 Updating Users 345
10.2 Protecting Pages 355
10.3 Showing Users 364
10.4 Destroying Users 379
10.5 Conclusion 387
10.6 Exercises 388
Chapter 11: User Microposts 391
11.1 A Micropost Model 391
11.2 Showing Microposts 405
11.3 Manipulating Microposts 414
11.4 Conclusion 438
11.5 Exercises 438
Chapter 12: Following Users 441
12.1 The Relationship Model 442
12.2 A Web Interface for Following and Followers 461
12.3 The Status Feed 485
12.4 Conclusion 497
12.5 Exercises 501
Index 503
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