[(Beginning Ruby on Rails E-commerce: From Novice to Professional )] [Author: Christian Hellsten] [Nov-2006]

by Jarkko Laine

Ruby on Rails offers developers the opportunity to create fully-featured web applications in double-quick time. Rails and e-commerce are a match made in heaven and Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce is the first book to directly target this market. The book explains, via real-life scenarios, how to use Rails to create every aspect of an online store – from creating a product catalog, to building a reliable shopping cart system, all the way to features and functions like customer feedback forums. This combination of high sophistication and broad focus makes this an essential working reference – the book all developers are calling for.

Genres: Computers

Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Jarkko Aarre Juhani Laine was a Finnish poet and a writer of prose and plays. He also translated American literature to Finnish.
Jarkko Laine was born in Turku, Finland. He became known from the 1960s underground movement, deriving inspiration from popular culture, pop music and comics. He provided some lyrics for the band Suomen Talvisota 1939–1940, and for popular singer Rauli Badding Somerjoki he wrote such song lyrics as 'Bensaa suonissa', 'Hymyile Miss Universum' and 'Pilvet karkaa, niin minäkin' (the latter being the title song of Aki Kaurismäki's film Drifting Clouds). Jarkko Laine was the editorial assistant for the literature magazine Parnasso in the years 1969–1986 and its editor-in-chief in the years 1987–2002. He was also the President of The Union of Finnish Writers in the years 1987–2002.

Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Definitely a beginner book. I wish it were more aimed at solely the intricacies of E-Commerce pertaining to Rails. Instead it was a beginner's book with an E-Commerce angle. I'd skip this book even as a beginner book. Get the Agile Web Development book!