Professional Ruby on Rails

by Noel Rappin Director, Pathfinder Development Ruby on Rails Practice

This book bridges the gap between what you’ll learn from a typical beginner book about Ruby on Rails and what you’ll need to know to create a solid, professional, spectacular, complex web application. Professional Ruby on Rails is a guide to taking a beginner web site and making it great. The book covers topics of interest to a web professional who is trying to develop and deploy a complex application. These topics include:

• Using REST to structure your application cleanly
• How to test and deploy your application for maximum automation with minimal headache
• Protecting your site and your user’s data
• Using Rails to create the kinds of interactions that web users are coming to expect

The current Rails books are either beginner books, cookbook-style books, or specifically aimed at Ajax development. This book will fill the void for a book that discusses in-depth the information that a developer would need in order to move from a basic site to a fully featured web application.

What others have to say.

From a review on Amazon:

“In short, no Rails book or resource I’ve read, and I’ve read a lot, has come close to teaching me exactly when, why, what, where and how to build a real-world application, step by step, like Professional Ruby on Rails. I give it my highest recommendation and feel confident that, thanks to Professional Ruby on Rails, my “Big Idea” now has a chance!”

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