Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications - New from SitePoint

For Immediate Release

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SitePoint Releases "Build Your Own Ruby on Rails 
Web Applications"

SitePoint Pty. Ltd. (sitepoint.com), provider of fun,
practical, and easy-to-understand content for web
professionals, today announced the release of
"Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications" by
Patrick Lenz.

"We're very pleased to offer the web development
community a practical and easy-to-understand book
about this revolutionary framework. Rails really puts
the fun back into developing web applications" said
Mark Harbottle, CEO of SitePoint.

Readers of this book will learn everything they need
to get up-and-running, from installing Rails to building
and deploying a fully-featured web application.
Unlike other Rails books, this book doesn't assume
that readers are experienced web developers, or that
they've used Ruby before.

Readers will learn to:

* interact with their database using ActiveRecord
  and migrations instead of arcane SQL commands

* add Ajax and visual effects to their application,
  using the built-in Prototype and script.aculo.us
  JavaScript libraries

* understand and use a model-view-controller
  architecture, maximizing code reuse and simplifying
  code maintenance

The book uses Rails 1.2 -- the very latest version of
Rails -- so readers can take advantage of all of the
latest features of the framework.

"This book is ideal for beginning to intermediate web
designers and developers who are already familiar with
HTML and CSS and want a practical, results-driven book
that teaches them Ruby on Rails from the ground up,"
notes Harbottle.

Author: Patrick Lenz
Price: $39.95 USD
Pages: 447
ISBN: 978-0-9758419-5-2

Book Website: http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/

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