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Sam Ruby, David Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
Provides information on creating Web-based applications with Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9 and each of the examples has been tested with Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, and 1.9.3.
Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh
How to avoid the most common code and design mistakes in Ruby on Rails applications - and refactor away problems that already exist • •A unique guide to improving Rails code quality, performance, reliability, stability, scalability, and maintainability. •Practical, proven techniques for ensuring that every new Rails application reflects today's best practices. •Highly realistic: reflects Rails mistakes and bad habits the authors have repeatedly seen 'in the wild' As millions of web developers have turned to the Ruby on Rails framework, many have fallen victim to the same mistakes, misconceptions, and bad habits. These errors can significantly reduce code quality, performance, reliability, stability, scalability, and maintainability. In some cases, they can even derail a project. In this book, these common Rails code and design problems are compiled into a complete set of AntiPatterns: what they look like, why they happen, why they're bad - and what to do instead. Every AntiPattern is illuminated with real world code, as well as specific guidance for refactoring existing bad code or design to reflect sound Object Oriented principles and established Ruby on Rails best practices. This 'cookbook' is organized into short, concise, easy-to-use chapters - each outlining a single common AntiPattern and offering detailed solutions. Until now, this information was difficult to find - and much of it wasn't available at all. Using Rails AntiPatterns, developers can dramatically improve the quality of both new and existing Rails applications; avoid future bad practices; and establish more effective Rails coding standards throughout the development organization.
David Thomas
A tutorial and reference to the object-oriented programming language for beginning to experienced programmers, updated for version 1.9, describes the language's structure, syntax, and operation, and explains how to build applications.
Obie Fernandez
Provides information on the capabilities and subsystems of Rails for the design and development of production-quality software.
Michael Hartl
Provides instructions for creating dynamic Web applications using Ruby on Rails, covering such topics as TDD, Model-View-Controller, REST architecture, and GitHub.
Ryan Bigg, Yehuda Katz
Rails makes getting an application up and running easy, but how can a developer ensure that it continues to function well? The answer is Test and Behavior-Driven Development. These Agile approaches, combined with the advantages of the latest software version, make Rails 3 a powerful development framework. Rails 3 in Actioncovers developing a Rails 3.0 application from the ground-up using the industry's best practices in an Agile development fashion, tackling one feature at a time in order to build a solid, maintainable and scalable application. A comprehensive and hands-on guide, the authors show readers how to get the most out of Rails, including tips on leveraging the treasure-trove of community-provided code available.
Chris Pine
Provides instructions for writing programs using the Ruby programming language.