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Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example
- By Michael Hartl
- Published Dec 16, 2010 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series series.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 576
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-74312-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-74312-1
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Product Author Bios
Michael Hartl is a programmer, educator, and entrepreneur. He coauthored RailsSpace (Addison-Wesley, 2008), and was cofounder and lead developer of Insoshi, a popular social networking platform based on Rails. He previously taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology, earning the Caltech Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. Michael is a graduate of Harvard College, holds a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Y Combinator entrepreneur program.
“Ruby on Rails™ 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps.”
—Peter Cooper, Editor of Ruby Inside
Using Rails 3, developers can build web applications of exceptional elegance and power. Although its remarkable capabilities have made Ruby on Rails one of the world’s most popular web development frameworks, it can be challenging to learn and use. Ruby on Rails™ 3 Tutorial is the solution. Leading Rails developer Michael Hartl teaches Rails 3 by guiding you through the development of your own complete sample application using the latest techniques in Rails web development.
Drawing on his experience building RailsSpace, Insoshi, and other sophisticated Rails applications, Hartl illuminates all facets of design and implementation—including powerful new techniques that simplify and accelerate development.
You’ll find integrated tutorials not only for Rails, but also for the essential Ruby, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SQL skills you’ll need when developing web applications. Hartl explains how each new technique solves a real-world problem, and he demonstrates this with bite-sized code that’s simple enough to understand, yet novel enough to be useful. Whatever your previous web development experience, this book will guide you to true Rails mastery.
This book will help you
- Install and set up your Rails development environment
- Go beyond generated code to truly understand how to build Rails applications from scratch
- Learn Test Driven Development (TDD) with RSpec
- Effectively use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern
- Structure applications using the REST architecture
- Build static pages and transform them into dynamic ones
- Master the Ruby programming skills all Rails developers need
- Define high-quality site layouts and data models
- Implement registration and authentication systems, including validation and secure passwords
- Update, display, and delete users
- Add social features and microblogging, including an introduction to Ajax
- Record version changes with Git and share code at GitHub
- Simplify application deployment with Heroku
Author's Site
Please visit the companion site at railstutorial.org.
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66 of 72 people found the following review helpful
An excellent resource in a wilderness of hell, By
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This review is from: Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) (Paperback)
There are as many rails tutorials on the web and in book form as there are ruby methods. An infinite expanse of information - most of it leading to heartbreak and frustration.Hartl, with this book as well as the first venture, takes the reader by the hand and gently guides him/her/it/them/monkeybacon through the world of ruby and ruby on rails with the excitement and ease a master has when taking students along for a ride. I have a collection of books and tutorials and, WITHOUT FAIL, each and every one of them ends somewhere with some sort of mistake in code that I've never been able to get over (including the first book by Hartl, by the way). Not so with this one. I completed the project outlined in this book. First time that's happened with any of the other books/tutorials. As I am a functioning idiot, this is no mean feat. It is quite an accomplishment. Not by me, but by the author. If you are able to view the tutorial videos, those will... Read more
50 of 55 people found the following review helpful
Great book but poor Kindle version, By System Architect "PV" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This is an exceptionally well-written tutorial, probably the best way to learn Ruby on Rails. The Kindle version, however, is very poorly done. Code listings are shown as images on the Kindle -- with small grey font which is very difficult to read even when zoomed-in. Furthermore, text search does not include the code listings and command examples. For example, I needed to find an explanation of the command "rake db:test:prepare" but got back "0 matches found".Though the Kindle edition is awful, the excellent content is accessible on web pages for free at [...]. There, one can also purchase a (fully searchable) PDF version directly from the author. I don't know whether it's Amazon's or the publisher's fault, but the Kindle edition of this book is a complete waste of money.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A must-read for any RoR novice, By
This review is from: Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) (Paperback)
While there are tons of other RoR tutorials out there, they all usually reach a point where the gently increasing learning curve suddenly goes vertical. Not so with this book.The author doesn't make things overly complicated, makes it clear when you need to be aware of new concepts and when not to worry (because it'll be covered later), and while this book does follow the traditional "develop an app while learning" method, it does so while introducing you to tools and techniques that Rails developers use in the real world. Before you know it, you'll be creating new git repos, pushing them to Github, creating branches for new developments and using test driven development (with tools like Rspec) to test your new code. If most of that went over your head *and* you want to learn Rails, you *need* this book. Interestingly, he demonstrates how you can create working Rails apps with a minimal knowledge of Ruby - which kills the assumption that Rails neophytes need to... Read more |
Online Sample Chapter
Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: From Zero to Deploy
Table of Contents
Foreword by Derek Sivers xv
Foreword by Obie Fernandez xvii
Acknowledgments xix
About the Author xxi
Chapter 1: From Zero to Deploy 1
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 Up and Running 9
1.3 Version Control with Git 24
1.4 Deploying 35
1.5 Conclusion 40
Chapter 2: A Demo App 41
2.1 Planning the Application 41
2.2 The Users Resource 44
2.3 The Microposts Resource 58
2.4 Conclusion 69
Chapter 3: Mostly Static Pages 71
3.1 Static Pages 74
3.2 Our First Tests 84
3.3 Slightly Dynamic Pages 103
3.4 Conclusion 115
3.5 Exercises 116
Chapter 4: Rails-Flavored Ruby 119
4.1 Motivation 119
4.2 Strings and Methods 125
4.3 Other Data Structures 134
4.4 Ruby Classes 144
4.5 Exercises 154
Chapter 5: Filling in the Layout 157
5.1 Adding Some Structure 157
5.2 Layout Links 177
5.3 User Signup: A First Step 186
5.4 Conclusion 191
5.5 Exercises 191
Chapter 6: Modeling and Viewing Users, Part I 193
6.1 User Model 194
6.2 User Validations 210
6.3 Viewing Users 227
6.4 Conclusion 236
6.5 Exercises 237
Chapter 7: Modeling and Viewing Users, Part II 239
7.1 Insecure Passwords 239
7.2 Secure Passwords 250
7.3 Better User Views 262
7.4 Conclusion 279
7.5 Exercises 280
Chapter 8 Sign Up 283
8.1 Signup Form 283
8.2 Signup Failure 292
8.3 Signup Success 305
8.4 RSpec Integration Tests 313
8.5 Conclusion 321
8.6 Exercises 321
Chapter 9: Sign In, Sign Out 325
9.1 Sessions 325
9.2 Signin Failure 332
9.3 Signin Success 338
9.4 Signing Out 354
9.5 Conclusion 363
9.6 Exercises 363
Chapter 10: Updating, Showing, and Deleting Users 365
10.1 Updating Users 365
10.2 Protecting Pages 376
10.3 Showing Users 384
10.4 Destroying Users 399
10.5 Conclusion 408
10.6 Exercises 409
Chapter 11: User Microposts 411
11.1 A Micropost Model 411
11.2 Showing Microposts 425
11.3 Manipulating Microposts 434
11.4 Conclusion 457
11.5 Exercises 458
Chapter 12: Following Users 461
12.1 The Relationship Model 463
12.2 A Web Interface for Following and Followers 482
12.3 The Status Feed 507
12.4 Conclusion 519
12.5 Exercises 523
Index 527
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