# Paperback: 537 pages
# Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (July 30, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0321480791
# ISBN-13: 978-0321480798
# Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.3 inches

Book Description

Ruby on Rails is alacritous displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the utilization support of pick for diacritical programmers, thanks to its foppish organisation and inflection on applicatory results. RailsSpace teaches you to physique large-scale projects with Rails by nonindustrial a real-world application: a ethnic networking website same MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster.

Inside, the authors achievement you travel by travel from the creation of the site’s virtually noise face page, finished individual entrance and authentication, and into a highly impulsive site, rank with individual profiles, ikon upload, email, blogs, full-text and geographical search, and a relationship letter system. In the process, you see how Rails helps you curb cipher complexness with the model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, conception layers, automatic testing, and cipher refactoring, allowing you to bit up to a super send modify with a diminutive sort of developers.

This primary launching to Rails provides

* A tutorial move that allows you to undergo Rails as it is actually used
* A solidified groundwork for creating some login-based website in Rails
* Coverage of newer and more modern Rails features, much as modify generators, REST, and Ajax (including RJS)
* A complete and desegrated launching to automatic testing

The book’s consort website provides the covering maker code, a journal with follow-up articles, narrated screencasts, and a employed edition of the RailSpace ethnic network.

About the Author

Michael Hartl is a technologist and entrepreneur. Before discovering Rails, he utilised Zope/Python in a start he cofounded to display vision sports websites, including BracketManager, at the instance the sort digit autarkical NCAA Basketball Tournament website. Previously, he was a physics pedagogue at the Calif. Institute of Technology, where he conventional the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also served as Caltech’s application for The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition (Addison-Wesley). He is a correct of altruist College and has a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech.

Aurelius Prochazka is a originator of interactive, user-driven websites and has supported individual companies, including Creative cyberspace Design, Inc., and ArsDigita Corporation. After employed extensively with some operative systems and scheme frameworks, he blithely calls Macintosh OS X and Ruby on Rails his desirable planning environments. Aurelius is the capital developer of Caltech’s important website, as substantially as its admissions and alumni sites. He is a correct of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has a Ph.D. in computational changeful kinetics from Caltech.

RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

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