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Head First Rails: A Learner’s Companion to Ruby on Rails

  • Length: 464 pages
  • Edition: 1
  • Publisher:
  • Publication Date: 2009-01-06
  • ISBN-10: 0596515774
  • ISBN-13: 9780596515775
  • Sales Rank: #1445867 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming — and productivity — to the max. You’ll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails’ rich set of tools and the MVC framework.

By the time you’re finished, you’ll have learned more than just another web framework. You’ll master database interactions, integration with Ajax and XML, rich content, and even dynamic graphing of your data — all in a fraction of the time it takes to build the same apps with Java, PHP, ASP.NET, or Perl. You’ll even get comfortable and familiar with Ruby, the language that underpins Rails. But you’ll do it in the context of web programming, and not through boring exercises such as “Hello, World!”

Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Rails uses a visually rich format designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. getting started
Chapter 2. beyond scaffolding
Chapter 3. inserting, updating, and deleting
Chapter 4. database finders
Chapter 5. validating your data
Chapter 6. making connections
Chapter 7. ajax
Chapter 8. XML and multiple representations
Chapter 9. REST and Ajax
Chapter 10. real-world applications

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