The Art of Rails
Published on 23. May 2008
310 pages
978-0-470-38607-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ruby on Rails offers the ability to rapidly design and writehigh-quality code with elegance and maintainability. Written by anexperienced web application developer, this book explains how totake good Rails code and turn it into beautiful Rails code: simple,effective, reusable, evolvable code. He discusses the very latestin design patterns, programming abstractions, and developmentmethodologies that have emerged for the modern web. With eachdesign technique, you?ll discover how to make your own additions toRails and craft a development environment tailored to your specificneeds.
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Edward Benson is a Staff Scientist with BBN Technologies in Arlington, Virginia. Ted's work at BBN includes the design and implementation of agent-based logistics and data processing architectures and semantically-enabled data recording and processing environments (often called the "Semantic Web"). He is a member of the IEEE and has published papers on both grid and agent computing techniques. Ted is an experienced web applications developer and a co-author of Professional Rich Internet Applications, arriving in bookstores March 2007. For BBN he wrote and maintains an internal Rails-based software module tracker for a technology called Bracket that allows developers to register plugins they've written and search for those of others.
Content
1. Emergence(y) of the New Web.
2. The Rails Concept.
3. The Server as an Application.
4. Getting the Most from M, V, and C.
5. Beautiful Web APIs.
6. Resources and REST.
7. The Five Styles of AJAX.
8. Playing with Blocks.
9. Mixins and Monkey Patching.
10. Code That Writes Code (That Writes Code).
11. How I Loved to Stop Worrying and Love the Schema.
12. Behavior-Driven Development and RSpec.
Index.
