Ebook: Agile Web Development with Rails (Covers Rails 3)

4th edition. — Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011 (19 April 2011). — 480 p. —ISBN-10: 1-934356-54-9, ISBN-13: 978-1-934356-54-8.Preface to the Fourth Edition 12
Acknowledgments 14
Introduction 16

Part I—Getting Started 23
1 Installing Rails 24
2 Instant Gratification 35
3 The Architecture of Rails Applications 48
4 Introduction to Ruby 55Part II—Building an Application 70
5 The Depot Application 71
6 Task A: Creating the Application 77
7 Task B: Vali dati on and Unit Testing 90
8 Task C: Catalog Display 105
9 Task D: Cart Creation 117
10 Task E: A Smarter Cart 126
11 Task F: Add a Dash of Ajax 139
12 Task G: Check Out! 158
13 Task H: Sending Mail 181
14 Task I: Logging In 194
15 Task J: Internationalization 216
16 Task K: Deployment and Production 235
17 Depot Retrospective 252Part III—Rails in Depth 257
18 Finding Your Way Around Rails 258
19 Active Record 271
20 Action Dispatch and Action Controller 307
21 Action View 339
22 Caching 364
23 Migrations 379
24 Nonbrowser Applications 396CONTENTS 11
25 Rails’ Dependencies 408
26 Rails Plugins 423
27 Where to Go from Here 435A Bibliography 437Index 438