书名: THE RAILS WAY

作者: Obie Fernandez

出版社: Pearson Education, Inc.

出版日期: 2008年

文档格式: PDF

文档大小: 3.08M

内容简介:This book is not a tutorial or basic introduction to Ruby or Rails. It is meant as a day-to-day reference for the full-time Rails developer. At times we delve deep into the Rails codebase to illustrate why Rails behaves the way that it does, and present snippets of actual Rails code. The more confident reader might be able to get started in Rails using just this book, extensive online resources, and his wits, but there are other publications that are more introductory in nature and might be a wee bit more appropriate for beginners. 

I am a fulltime Rails application developer and so is every contributor to this book. We do not spend our days writing books or training other people, although that is certainly something that we enjoy doing on the side. 

I started writing this book mostly for myself, because I hate having to use online documentation, especially API docs, which need to be consulted over and over again. Since the API documentation is liberally licensed (just like the rest of Rails), there are a few sections of the book that reproduce parts of the API documentation. In practically all cases, the API documentation has been expanded and/or corrected, supplemented with additional examples and commentary drawn from practical experience. 

Hopefully you are like me—I really like books that I can keep next to my keyboard, scribble notes in, and fill with bookmarks and dog-ears. When I’m coding, I want to be able to quickly refer to both API documentation, in-depth explanations, and relevant examples.

书名: Professional Ruby on Rails

作者: Noel Rappin

出版社: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

出版日期: 2008年

文档格式: PDF

文档大小: 4.39M

内容简介: This book is intended for intermediate to advanced Rails programmers. It assumes that you already know Ruby, and have either read one of the many wonderful introductory books on Rails or have otherwise consumed some form of a Rails tutorial. In either case, you don ’ t need me to tell you how to create a basic Rails application.

The focus of this book is on the step that comes after just being able to make Rails work. You ’ ve read the basic book, and now you ’ ve been asked to implement a real, live, web application. Suddenly you have all sorts of questions that weren ’ t covered in the introductory material. How do I manage users and security? Is there an easy way to manage time zones or other internationalization issues? How does Rails expect me to organize a team of programmers and manage source issues? How do I automate common build tasks, and how do I deploy to a production server? What do I need to do to secure my site? How can I extend Rails to take advantage of the many wonderful things being done by the Rails programming community?

If you ’ re interested in learning the answer to any of these questions, then this book is for you.

书名: Mastering Dojo

作者: Rawld Gill, Craig Riecke, Alex Russell

出版社: The Pragmatic Bookshelf

出版日期: 2008年

文档格式: PDF

文档大小: 11.1M

内容简介:The book really rolls out the red carpet for Dojo to emerge with guns blazing! The authors show you how easy it is to use impressive widgets without installing a thing. I was amazed to discover that JavaScript is not just a toy language, how Dojo is built on top of it, and how both are invaluable in any web development project. Buy this book. It’s the next best thing to having the authors working at your side.

Brian C. Reeve

 Application developer, bluecomIT.com

书名: Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects

作者: Ben Scofield

出版社: Apress

出版日期: 2008年

文档格式: PDF

文档大小: 5.93M

内容简介: I think of this book as a door. It’s a gateway to the open Web, where sites and applications share data and functionality to the benefit of all. Over the past several years, it’s become increasingly obvious that openness is the future of the Internet—from the success of mashups based on Google Maps, Flickr, Twitter, and other sites, to the explosive growth of the Facebook application platform, the most exciting work being done today lies at the boundaries of systems.

This book codifies that idea, and relates it to a specific application framework: Ruby on Rails. At the same time that the open Web has become increasingly important, Rails has been growing in popularity thanks to the productivity it allows and the programmer joy that it creates. Rails has also, with the release of version 2, become one of the best-suited frameworks for building components in the new, interconnected Internet.

I’ve targeted the intermediate developer in the chapters that follow. If you’ve built an application with Rails (regardless of the version) and know a bit about how the Web works, you should be able to work through the projects without a problem. But even the advanced reader should find something new here.