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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition
- By Michael Hartl
- Published Jul 27, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series series.
- Copyright 2013
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 600
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-83205-1
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-83205-4
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Product Author Bios
Michael Hartl is the author of the Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial, the leading introduction to web development with Ruby on Rails. His prior experience includes writing and developing RailsSpace, an extremely obsolete Rails tutorial book, and developing Insoshi, a once-popular and now-obsolete social networking platform in Ruby on Rails. In 2011, Michael received a Ruby Hero Award for his contributions to the Ruby community. He is a graduate of Harvard College, has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Y Combinator entrepreneur program.
“Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial by Michael Hartl has become a must-read for developers learning how to build Rails apps.”
—Peter Cooper, Editor of Ruby Inside
Using Rails, 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™ Tutorial, Second Edition, is the solution. Best-selling author and leading Rails developer Michael Hartl teaches Rails by guiding you through the development of your own complete sample application using the latest techniques in Rails web development. The updates to this edition include all-new site design using Twitter’s Bootstrap; coverage of the new asset pipeline, including Sprockets and Sass; behavior-driven development (BDD) with Capybara and RSpec; better automated testing with Guard and Spork; roll your own authentication with has_secure_password; and an introduction to Gherkin and Cucumber.
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
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Best tech book I've ever read, By
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Not only is this the best Rails book on the market, it is the best tech book I've ever read! Michael Hartl is a great teacher. You won't be disappointed.Also - most, if not all of the 1 star reviews you see are due to the printing error of the book. It is due to the publisher, and out of Michael's hands. What are you waiting for ? Grab yourself a copy, and thank me later :) Update Dec 10, 2012: I just wanted to pop in and say that the learning experience produced some fruitful results. After learning Rails from this book, I created an internal website as part of my job and received a lot of praise. I love Rails now, and I really hope Michael comes out with an "Advanced Rails" book. I'd be one of the first in line to grab it.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Extremely well written, great for beginner,
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I have never before worked my way through a tutorial in which EVERYTHING happens exactly the way the author says it will, but that's how this book has gone thus far (I'm about 1/3 through). I am new to web development and database development, and I really appreciate the step-by-step approach. The first chapter is a masterpiece, taking you from installation on your PC, to deployment on a "real" server, and even teaching you to use github along the way. I've never said, "OMG, it actually WORKED!" so many times in a single evening. Highly recommended.
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[Update 10.9.12]I originally posted this review when I received the first physical printing of the book which had a critical printing error (detailed below). I am assured that the new printing of the book has none of these errors. After returning the incorrectly printed book I purchased a digital copy instead. Based on the content of the digital copy I have changed my review to 5 stars. Though I have not made my way through much of the book at this point, so far I have successfully deployed the first two sample rails applications to Heroku. I've come across no problems with the book content and any errors I've run across in my own system configuration have been related to linux configuration and have been preempted by instructions in the book. Great book so far and I'm enjoying working my way through. [Original Review] While waiting for the book edition to come out I had been browsing my way through the online version of this... Read more |
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: From Zero to Deploy
Table of Contents
Foreword to the First Edition by Derek Sivers xv
Foreword to the First Edition 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 27
1.4 Deploying 39
1.5 Conclusion 43
Chapter 2: A Demo App 45
2.1 Planning the Application 45
2.2 The Users Resource 49
2.3 The Microposts Resource 63
2.4 Conclusion 74
Chapter 3: Mostly Static Pages 77
3.1 Static Pages 82
3.2 Our First Tests 93
3.3 Slightly Dynamic Pages 103
3.4 Conclusion 114
3.5 Exercises 114
3.6 Advanced Setup 117
Chapter 4: Rails-Flavored Ruby 129
4.1 Motivation 129
4.2 Strings and Methods 134
4.3 Other Data Structures 142
4.4 Ruby Classes 153
4.5 Conclusion 164
4.6 Exercises 164
Chapter 5: Filling in the Layout 167
5.1 Adding Some Structure 167
5.2 Sass and the Asset Pipeline 187
5.3 Layout Links 197
5.4 User Signup: A First Step 211
5.5 Conclusion 215
5.6 Exercises 217
Chapter 6: Modeling Users 221
6.1 User Model 222
6.2 User Validations 236
6.3 Adding a Secure Password 254
6.4 Conclusion 267
6.5 Exercises 268
Chapter 7: Sign Up 271
7.1 Showing Users 271
7.2 Signup Form 292
7.3 Signup Failure 303
7.4 Signup Success 312
7.5 Conclusion 321
7.6 Exercises 321
Chapter 8: Sign In, Sign Out 325
8.1 Sessions and Signin Failure 325
8.2 Signin Success 343
8.3 Introduction to Cucumber (Optional) 363
8.4 Conclusion 371
8.5 Exercises 372
Chapter 9: Updating, Showing, and Deleting Users 373
9.1 Updating Users 373
9.2 Authorization 385
9.3 Showing All Users 396
9.4 Deleting Users 413
9.5 Conclusion 422
9.6 Exercises 424
Chapter 10: User Microposts 429
10.1 A Micropost Model 429
10.2 Showing Microposts 445
10.3 Manipulating Microposts 454
10.4 Conclusion 479
10.5 Exercises 480
Chapter 11: Following Users 483
11.1 The Relationship Model 484
11.2 A Web Interface for Following Users 503
11.3 The Status Feed 529
11.4 Conclusion 539
11.5 Exercises 543
Index 545
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