Title
Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)
Amazon description
Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same application in other frameworks. With this book you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. [...]
Product details
Author: Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier, Hansson Andreas Sch
Paperback: 558 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Amazon rating: 4.5
Publish date: 1 July 2005
Price: $34.95