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Rails Crash Course: A No-Nonsense Guide to Rails Development
Rails is a robust, flexible development platform that lets you build complex websites quickly. Major websites like GitHub, Hulu, and Twitter have run Rails under the hood, and if you know just enough HTML and CSS to be dangerous, Rails Crash Course will teach you to harness Rails for your own projects and create web applications that are fast, stable, and secure.
In Part I, you'll learn Ruby and Rails fundamentals and then dive straight into models, controllers, views, and deployment. As you work through the basics, you'll learn how to:
Craft persistent models with Active Record
Build view templates with Embedded Ruby
Use Git to roll back to previous versions of your code base
Deploy applications to Heroku
In Part II, you'll take your skills to the next level as you build a social networking app with more advanced Ruby tools, such as modules and metaprogramming, and advanced data modeling techniques within Rails's Active Record. You'll learn how to:
Implement an authentication system to identify authorized users
Write your own automated tests and refactor your code with confidence
Maximize performance with the asset pipeline and turbolinks
Secure your app against SQL injection and cross-site scripting
Set up a server and deploy applications with Capistrano
Each chapter is packed with hands-on examples and exercises to reinforce what you've learned. Whether you're completely new to Ruby or you've been mucking around for a bit, Rails Crash Course will take you from the basics to shipping your first Rails application, fast.
In Part I, you'll learn Ruby and Rails fundamentals and then dive straight into models, controllers, views, and deployment. As you work through the basics, you'll learn how to:
Craft persistent models with Active Record
Build view templates with Embedded Ruby
Use Git to roll back to previous versions of your code base
Deploy applications to Heroku
In Part II, you'll take your skills to the next level as you build a social networking app with more advanced Ruby tools, such as modules and metaprogramming, and advanced data modeling techniques within Rails's Active Record. You'll learn how to:
Implement an authentication system to identify authorized users
Write your own automated tests and refactor your code with confidence
Maximize performance with the asset pipeline and turbolinks
Secure your app against SQL injection and cross-site scripting
Set up a server and deploy applications with Capistrano
Each chapter is packed with hands-on examples and exercises to reinforce what you've learned. Whether you're completely new to Ruby or you've been mucking around for a bit, Rails Crash Course will take you from the basics to shipping your first Rails application, fast.
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296 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2014
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June 3, 2015
Great book to get started with Ruby on Rails. It has great explanations of how to do things the Ruby way and it is not boring at all.
February 15, 2022
This was an okay read.
I can't say that I enjoy Rails over ASP.NET MVC and Python, but I thought it was still a good language to learn.
3.8/5
I can't say that I enjoy Rails over ASP.NET MVC and Python, but I thought it was still a good language to learn.
3.8/5
September 29, 2016
4 stars mostly because it is quite outdated already and if you program Rails on Windows this book is not solving all the pain of dealing with various maladies, especially many encountered around Bootstrap, but forums do.
You will be able to create a pseudo-para-production ready web app though.
I generally like No Starch books that appear to come out more thorough and real usage ready even though fewer subjects on the same topic offered.
This book may prepare a beginner well, but whether one would be able to work in a corporate/startup environment/company remains questionable.
Next, need to find what is next book to go one level up.
You will be able to create a pseudo-para-production ready web app though.
I generally like No Starch books that appear to come out more thorough and real usage ready even though fewer subjects on the same topic offered.
This book may prepare a beginner well, but whether one would be able to work in a corporate/startup environment/company remains questionable.
Next, need to find what is next book to go one level up.
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