| The Rails community needs the most up-to-date information it can get. So here's the Second Edition of the Jolt Award winning book that shows you a new approach to web development:
- develop sophisticated web applications quickly & easily;
- use incremental & iterative development to create the web apps that users want;
- and get to go home on time.
This is a substantial overhaul to the first edition. In this book you'll find information on migrations, RJS templates, respond_to, integration tests, and all the new ActiveRecord features (including polymorphic associations, join models, and eager loading). And it incorporates another year's worth of Rails best practices.
Rails swept to world-wide attention in the Spring of 2005. Since then, it has become a serious and popular alternative to traditional web development environments such as Java and .NET. Why? Because Rails has the best of both worlds.
You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management.
But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails also makes it both fun and easy to turn out very cool web applications. Need Ajax support, so your web applications are highly interactive? Rails has it built in. Want an application that sends and receives e-mail? produces and consumes web services? supports meaningful URLs? All built-in. | |
