Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)
 

Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, Thomas Fuchs, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark

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... (read more)

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Complete resource for Rails -- a bit overwhelming at times. Great explanation of MVC and other ideas which Rails encompasses.


I felt the "Depot" application stopped short of a few things:

* many-to-many relationships and category display
* payment gateway processing

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  • Jaehyun K

    jaehyun k said:

    this book is based on rails version 1.2

    posted Thursday, March 27 2008
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