Practical Rails Projects

This book provides intermediate Rails users with an essential learning aid to take them to higher level, teaching them countless real world techniques via a series of practical project-based chapters. The book's diverse content goes beyond many of its competitors.

Ruby on Rails is currently a very hot technology, and its popularity is still growing. Practical Ruby on Rails Projects provides intermediate Rails users with an essential learning aid to take them to higher level, teaching them countless real world techniques via a series of practical project-based chapters. Each chapter takes the reader through the complete process of building up a full-functional Rails web application.

Ruby on Rails is a hot market area, and this book provides a higher level learning experience, going beyond many competitors with the diversity of conten Teaches the latest in Rails techniques, including the Rails REST implementation, and Active Resource Supports developers using Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux operating systems

Autorentext
Eldon Alameda is a web developer who currently resides in the harsh climates of Kansas. He works as a regional webmaster for the U.S. National Weather Service; prior to this, he did development for a variety of companies including local start-ups, advertising firms, Sprint PCS, and IBM. During the 1990s, he also acquired a nice stack of worthless stock options from working for dot-com companies.

Inhalt
Making the Right Preparations (Don't Skip This Part).- Building a Development Environment.- Creating a Rails Application.- Monkey Tasks: Managing a Daily Task List.- Implementing a User Registration and Authentication System.- Building a Daily To-Do Manager.- Enhancing Monkey Tasks.- Exercisr.- Developing a REST-Based Application.- Adding Graphs to Our Application.- Enhancing Exercisr.- Simple Blogs.- Building a Blog Using Typo.- Building a Simple Blog Engine.- Enhancing Our Blogs.- Building a Web Comic Using Caching.- Building Our Base System with Page Caching.- Implementing Advanced Caching.- Enhancing the Web Comic.- Church Community Site.- Managing Users and Profiles.- Rounding out the Community.- Enhancing the Church Community Application.- GamingTrend.- Understanding the Problems of the Legacy PHP Site.- Converting Game Records.- Supporting News.- Enhancing the Gaming Site.- Integrating with a RESTful Application Using Edge Rails (Rails 2.0 ).- Brief Overview of Highrise.- Integrating to the Highrise REST API.- Building the Appointment Scheduler.- Enhancing Our Rails 2.0 Application.