Extremely Good Ruby on Rails Book: The Rails Way
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The latest entry in Addison-Wesley’s Professional Ruby Series is The Rails Way, by Obie Fernandez, is a long awaited book billing itself as the “expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications.”
More precisely, the book dives into nearly every area of the Rails libraries and APIs and acts as a reference work for them. Coming in at about 850 pages, the book is physically very similar to The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton. There’s no denying that these two books look good next to each other on the bookshelf, and a lot of comparison can be made between the two.
Using detailed code examples, Obie systematically covers Rails’ key capabilities and subsystems. He presents advanced programming techniques, introduces open source libraries that facilitate easy Rails adoption, and offers important insights into testing and production deployment. Dive deep into the Rails codebase together, discovering why Rails behaves as it does– and how to make it behave the way you want it to.
This book will help you:
- Increase your productivity as a web developer
- Realize the overall joy of programming with Ruby on Rails
- Learn what’s new in Rails 2.0
- Drive design and protect long-term maintainability with TestUnit and RSpec
- Understand and manage complex program flow in Rails controllers
- Leverage Rails’ support for designing REST-compliant APIs
- Master sophisticated Rails routing concepts and techniques
- Examine and troubleshoot Rails routing
- Make the most of ActiveRecord object-relational mapping
- Utilize Ajax within your Rails applications
- Incorporate logins and authentication into your application
- Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and write your own
- Integrate email services into your applications with ActionMailer
- Choose the right Rails production configurations
- Streamline deployment with Capistrano
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