The Rails Way View Larger Image | Obie Fernandez
Addison-Wesley, Paperback, Published November 2007, 450 pages, ISBN 0321445619 | List Price: $49.99
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The expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications
Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development
process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering
business value. Now, for the first time, there's a comprehensive, authoritative
guide to building production-quality software with Rails. Pioneering Rails
developer Obie Fernandez and a team of experts illuminate the entire Rails
API, along with the Ruby idioms, design approaches, libraries, and plug-ins
that make Rails so valuable. Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, they
address the real challenges development teams face, showing how to use Rails' tools and best practices to maximize productivity and build polished applications
users will enjoy.
Using detailed code examples, Obie systematically covers Rails' key capabilities
and subsystems. He presents advanced programming techniques, introduces open
source libraries that facilitate easy Rails adoption, and offers important insights
into testing and production deployment. Dive deep into the Rails codebase together,
discovering why Rails behaves as it does' and how to make it behave the way you
want it to.
This book will help you
Increase your productivity as a web developer
Realize the overall joy of programming with Ruby on
Rails
Learn what's new in Rails 2.0
Drive design and protect long-term maintainability with
TestUnit and RSpec
Understand and manage complex program flow in Rails
controllers
Leverage Rails' support for designing REST-compliant APIs
Master sophisticated Rails routing concepts and techniques
Examine and troubleshoot Rails routing
Make the most of ActiveRecord object-relational mapping
Utilize Ajax within your Rails applications
Incorporate logins and authentication into your application
Extend Rails with the best third-party plug-ins and
write your own
Integrate email services into your applications with
ActionMailer
Choose the right Rails production configurations
Streamline deployment with Capistrano
About the Author
Obie Fernandez is an independent consultant, based out of Atlanta, GA. Obie
has specialized in Java enterprise development for most of his 12-year professional
career as a software developer, with extensive experience writing web-based
applications and leading Agile development teams. He is the President and Founder
of the Agile Atlanta User Group. As a senior consultant for three years at ThoughtWorks,
Obie was involved in complex custom enterprise software projects. ThoughtWorks
leadership and reputation in the enterprise development world is firmly established.
Obie discovered Ruby on Rails in February 2005 and immediately detected a mix
of timing, marketing, and sheer innovation that reminded him of Java during
its early days of enterprise adoption. He began learning and evangelizing Rails
internally at ThoughtWorks and publicly via his blog (http://obiefernandez.com)
and public speaking engagements. In the process, he cultivated a friendship
with David H. Hansson, the author of Rails and became heavily involved in the
Rails community. Obie introduced David in person to a number of ThoughtWorks
executives including CEO Roy Singham in March 2005, leading to the decision
by ThoughtWorks to strongly support the nascent Rails community and encourage
adoption of Ruby in the enterprise. By July 2005, Obie managed to transition
over to Ruby as his primary programming language and led the first billable
Ruby projects at ThoughtWorks. Due in great part to Obie's leadership, ThoughtWorks
in 2007 is the world's leading Ruby consultancy, employing close to a hundred
Rails developers worldwide, including some of the world's top Rubyists.
Members of the worldwide Ruby on Rails community know Obie due to his popular
blog, reaching thousands of subscribers. Many of his blog entries about Rails
receive hundreds of visits a month via Google searches and all of his websites
are all highly ranked on searches for Ruby and Rails. Obie is also a regular
contributor to the popular Ruby on Rails podcast.
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