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Agile Web Development with Rails--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
3rd Edition of Jolt Award Winning Book Gives a New Approach to Web
Development

Raleigh, NC-Rails just keeps on changing. Rails 2, released in 2008,
brings hundreds of improvements, including new support for RESTful
applications, new generator options, and so on. And, as importantly, we've
all learned a lot more about writing Rails applications in the last few
years.

With Agile Web Development with Rails, the Third Edition of the Jolt Award
winning book, you find a new approach to web development, updated for
Rails 2. Sam Ruby joins the team to add his world-class knowledge of web
application development, making this the most up-to-date and authoritative
Rails book out there.

Rails swept to world-wide attention in the Spring of 2005. Since then, it
has become a serious and popular alternative to traditional web
development environments such as Java and .NET. Why? Because Rails has the
best of both worlds.

You want to write professional-grade applications? Rails is a full-stack,
open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional,
and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency
of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper
release management.

But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails also makes it both
fun and easy to turn out very cool web applications. Need Ajax support, so
your web applications are highly interactive? Rails has it built in. Want
an application that sends and receives e-mail? Produces and consumes web
services? Supports meaningful URLs? Want to write applications with a
REST-based interface (so they can interact with other RESTful applications
with almost no effort on your part)? All built-in.

With this book, you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business
objects and database tables. No more painful object-relational mapping.
Just create your business objects and let Rails do the rest. Need to
create and modify your schema? Migrations make it painless (and they're
versioned, so you can roll changes backward and forward). You'll learn how
to use the Action Pack framework to route incoming requests and render
pages using easy-to-write templates and components. See how to exploit the
Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and
create dynamic, user-centric web-pages using built-in Javascript and Ajax
support. There are extensive chapters on testing, deployment, and
scaling.

As with the previous editions of the book, we start with an extended
tutorial that builds parts of an online store. And, of course, the
application has been rewritten to show the best of Rails 2.

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David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of the Rails framework.

Sam Ruby is a prominent software designer who has made significant
contributions to many of the Apache Software Foundation's open source
software projects and to the standardization of web feeds via his
involvement with the Atom web feed standard and the popular
feedvalidator.org web service. He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff
Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM.

Dave Thomas is one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and therefore
understands agility. As an author of Programming Ruby, he understands
Ruby. And, as an active Rails developer, he knows Rails.

Additional Resources
For more information about the book, including code, errata, discussions,
and more, see the catalog page for Agile Web Development with Rails, Third
Edition:
http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-developme...

Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
ISBN: 9781934356166, 850 pages, $43.95 USD, £33.99 GBP
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