false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170312988m/46084.jpg 45 3 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 <i>ActiveRecord</i> to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the <i>Action Pack</i> framework to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax support. There are extensive chapters on testing, deployment, and scaling. You'll see how easy it is to install Rails using your web server of choice (such as Apache or lighttpd) or using its own included web server. You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all. You'll create a complete online store application in the extended tutorial section, so you'll see how a full Rails application is developed---iteratively and rapidly. Rails strives to honor the Pragmatic Programmer's "DRY Principle" by avoiding the extra work of configuration files and code annotations. You can develop in real-time: make a change, and watch it work immediately. Forget XML. Everything in Rails, from templates to control flow to business logic, is written in Ruby, the language of choice for programmers who like to get the job done well (and leave work on time for a change). Rails is the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0 developers. <em>Agile Web Development with Rails</em> is the book for that generation, written by Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer and author of <em>Programming Ruby</em>) and David Heinemeier Hansson, who created Rails. 1699340 15 7 2005 Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) total:264|5:71|4:115|3:63|2:14|1:1| 264 1033 463 33 5 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 08:50:32 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 08:52:13 -0700 2007 Programming Ruby" first, to get a foundation in ruby first.more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 11:02:23 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 11:07:02 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Fri Aug 29 14:39:59 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 14:42:30 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Thu Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 22 11:32:37 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 12:12:59 -0800 2009 The Pragmatic Programmer was an excellent book. However, alot of the garbage suggested in AWD makes me doubt how much experience the author has writing scalable, agile, high traffic web-applications.

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