The Rails Way

• Paperback: 912 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (November 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321445619

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 a recognized tech industry leader and independent consultant. He has been hacking computers since he got his first Commodore VIC-20 in the eighties, and found himself in the right place and time as a programmer on some of the first Java enterprise projects of the mid-nineties. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1998 and gained prominence as lead architect of local startup success MediaOcean. He also founded the Extreme Programming (later Agile Atlanta) User Group and was that group’s president and organizer for several years. In 2004, he made the move back into the enterprise, tackling high-risk, progressive projects for world-renowned consultancy ThoughtWorks. He has been evangelizing Ruby and Rails online via blog posts and publications since early 2005, and earned himself quite a bit of notoriety (and trash talking) from his old friends in the Java open-source community. Since then, he has presented on a regular basis at numerous industry events and user group meetings, and even does the occasional training gig for corporations and groups wanting to get into Rails development. Nowadays, Obie specializes in the development and marketing of large-scale, web-based applications.

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Design Patterns in Ruby

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (December 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321490452

Praise for Design Patterns in Ruby

“Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly encounter. Russ Olsen has done a great job of selecting classic patterns and augmenting these with newer patterns that have special relevance for Ruby. He clearly explains each idea, making a wealth of experience available to Ruby developers for their own daily work.”

—Steve Metsker, Managing Consultant with Dominion Digital, Inc.

“This book provides a great demonstration of the key ‘Gang of Four’ design patterns without resorting to overly technical explanations. Written in a precise, yet almost informal style, this book covers enough ground that even those without prior exposure to design patterns will soon feel confident applying them using Ruby. Olsen has done a great job to make a book about a classically ‘dry’ subject into such an engaging and even occasionally humorous read.”

—Peter Cooper

“This book renewed my interest in understanding patterns after a decade of good intentions. Russ picked the most useful patterns for Ruby and introduced them in a straightforward and logical manner, going beyond the GoF’s patterns. This book has improved my use of Ruby, and encouraged me to blow off the dust covering the GoF book.”

—Mike Stok

“Design Patterns in Ruby is a great way for programmers from statically typed objectoriented languages to learn how design patterns appear in a more dynamic, flexible language like Ruby.”

—Rob Sanheim, Ruby Ninja, Relevance

Most design pattern books are based on C++ and Java. But Ruby is different—and the language’s unique qualities make design patterns easier to implement and use. In this book, Russ Olsen demonstrates how to combine Ruby’s power and elegance with patterns, and write more sophisticated, effective software with far fewer lines of code.

After reviewing the history, concepts, and goals of design patterns, Olsen offers a quick tour of the Ruby language—enough to allow any experienced software developer to immediately utilize patterns with Ruby. The book especially calls attention to Ruby features that simplify the use of patterns, including dynamic typing, code closures, and “mixins” for easier code reuse.

Fourteen of the classic “Gang of Four” patterns are considered from the Ruby point of view, explaining what problems each pattern solves, discussing whether traditional implementations make sense in the Ruby environment, and introducing Ruby-specific improvements. You’ll discover opportunities to implement patterns in just one or two lines of code, instead of the endlessly repeated boilerplate that conventional languages often require.

Design Patterns in Ruby also identifies innovative new patterns that have emerged from the Ruby community. These include ways to create custom objects with metaprogramming, as well as the ambitious Rails-based “Convention Over Configuration” pattern, designed to help integrate entire applications and frameworks.

Engaging, practical, and accessible, Design Patterns in Ruby will help you build better software while making your Ruby programming experience more rewarding.

About the Author
Russ Olsen has been building software for more than twenty-five years. He has led projects through several generations of programming technologies, from FORTRAN to C to C++ to Java, and now Ruby. He has been using and teaching Ruby since 2002. Olsen writes the popular technology blog Technology As If People Mattered

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Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java

• Paperback: 330 pages
• Publisher: Apress (September 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598814

Discover how JRuby on Rails can be used to create web applications faster and more efficiently while still taking advantage of the vast power of the Java platform.

Ruby on Rails is proving itself to be one of the most efficient and powerful agile web development application frameworks available and has had a profound influence on the Java community. The JRuby project offers Java developers the best of two worlds: the flexibility of Ruby on Rails coupled with the enterprise-level power and maturity of the Java platform.

JRuby core developer Ola Bini covers everything you need to know to take full advantage of what JRuby has to offer, including

• Full coverage on how to use JRuby to create web applications faster and more efficiently, while continuing to take advantage of the vast power of the Java platform
• Several real-world projects that illustrate the crucial specifics you need to know about the interaction of Java and Ruby
• Helpful, practical instruction and discussion on how web applications can be deployed using a variety of popular servers such as Apache and Mongrel

What youll learn

• Create a Rails application that uses JDBC to talk to legacy databases.
• Use Java Management Extensions (JMX) to more effectively manage your application.
• Deploy a Rails application within a Java Enterprise web container (Tomcat).
• Create interoperable applications involving EJBs and Rails-driven web services.
• Securely integrate XML processing into your Ruby applications.
• Build cutting-edge Web 2.0 web sites using Rails, Prototype, and script.aculo.us to provide a pleasing user experience.
• Build four important projects: Store, CMS, Admin tool, and a web library project.

Who is this book for?

Youll get the most from this book if you have medium-to-advanced skills in Java web development, with a little Ruby experience, and are interested in taking Web development to the next level, both in terms of speed and features and in interoperability with existing infrastructure.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project-motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real-world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Related Titles from Apress

• Beginning POJOs: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry
• Beginning Ruby on Rails: From Novice to Professional
• The Definitive Guide to Grails

About the Author
Ola Bini is a longtime developer from Sweden who started at an age of 9 years with Basic, on an Apple IIc; from there on he learned C, C++, Assembler, Lisp, Java, Ruby, and various other languages. He has no formal education except for a few Sun Java certifications. He has worked with system development at Karolinska Institutet since 2001 and runs his own consulting company (OLogix Consulting) in his spare time. He has contributed to various open source projects and is one of the three core developers of the JRuby project.

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Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Apress (January 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599330

Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today’s forward–looking business plans. With many of these solutions being moved to the Web, the popular Rails framework and its underlying Ruby language are playing a major role alongside web services in building the reporting solutions of tomorrow. Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is the first book to comprehensively introduce this popular framework, guiding readers through a wide–ranging array of features. Note this isn’t a staid guide to generating traditional reports, but rather it shows you how the Ruby language and Rails framework can create truly compelling reporting services by plugging into popular third-party applications and services such as Google AdWords, UPS.com, iTunes, and SalesForce.com.

What you’ll learn

• Create reporting solutions for both the Web and the desktop.
• Integrate with powerful third–party retail solutions such as eBay, and Amazon.com in order to monitor your sales campaigns in real–time.
• Build an invoice reporting system using Rails and PayPal.
• Monitor your sales performance by taking advantage of SugarCRM’s web service offerings.

Who is this book for?

Ruby and Rails developers seeking to create compelling business intelligence and reporting solutions using a wide variety of applications and services.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Related Titles

• Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
• Practical Ruby Gems
• Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional

About the Author Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He’s used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb’s Journal. Prior to this he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic. His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby.com (http://coolruby.com), a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot (http://www.thoughtbot.com.) on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America’s Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow’s BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby. David’s journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb’s Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He’s also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as “MySQL and You” and “Making Money with Open Source Software.” He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.

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Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional

• Paperback: 664 pages
• Publisher: Apress (March 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597664

Ruby is perhaps best known as the engine powering the hugely popular Ruby on Rails web framework. However, it is an extremely powerful and versatile programming language in its own right. It focuses on simplicity and offers a fully object-oriented environment.

Beginning Ruby is a thoroughly contemporary guide for every type of reader wanting to learn Ruby, from novice programmers to web developers to Ruby newcomers. It starts by explaining the principles behind object-oriented programming and within a few chapters builds toward creating a genuine Ruby application.

The book then explains key Ruby principles, such as classes and objects; projects, modules, and libraries; and other aspects of Ruby such as database access. In addition, Ruby on Rails is covered in depth, and the books appendixes provide essential reference information as well as a primer for experienced programmers.

About the Author
Peter Cooper is a highly experienced Ruby developer and trainer. He manages BigBold (www.bigbold.com), a Ruby training and development company, and has produced many commercial web sites using Ruby on Rails, the Ruby-based web framework. In addition, he created Code Snippets, one of the world’s largest public code repositories, and Congress, an online chat client utilizing Ajax and Ruby on Rails. He also created Feed Digest, a feed distribution service that was recently profiled by Business 2.0 magazine.
In addition to development work, Peter has written professionally about various development techniques and tools, producing over 100 articles. He was coeditor of WebDeveloper.com, and worked on iBoost.com and Webpedia.com.
He lives in Lincolnshire, England, with his girlfriend. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, camping, and exploring mountains.

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Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Apress (September 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598474

Pro Active Record helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of Rails model/view/controller framework. Its an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from both Ruby and Rails applications.

Because ActiveRecord is configured with default assumptions that mesh perfectly with the Rails framework, Rails developers often find they hardly need think about it at all. However, if you are developing in Ruby without Rails, or are deploying against legacy databases designed without Rails in mind, or you just want to take advantage of database-specific features such as large objects and stored procedures, you need the in-depth knowledge of ActiveRecord found in this book.

In Pro Active Record, authors Kevin Marshall, Chad Pytel, and Jon Yurek walk you through every step from the basics of getting and installing the ActiveRecord library to working with legacy schema to using features specific to each of todays most popular database engines, including Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, and more! You’ll come to a deep understanding of ActiveRecord that will enable you to truly exploit all that Ruby, Rails, and your chosen database platform have to offer.

About the Author

Kevin Marshall is a software developer at heart. He is a consultant to a number of companies and currently runs 50+ sites of his own&emdash;many of which are now happily taking advantage of ActiveRecord with the Ruby on Rails framework, including the popular Draftwizard.com. As a technology writer, Kevin has published a short article, “Web Services with Rails”; contributed a few recipes to the Ruby Cookbook; and contributed a number of articles to the Association of Computing Machinery’s periodical, Computing Reviews (available online at www.reviews.com).
Kevin is also a member of the Pro Football Writers Association, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. When he’s not deep into coding, building content, or talking football, he’s generally off playing with his sons. To learn more about what he’s up to right now, you can visit his company site, falicon.com, or just drop him a note at info@falicon.com.

Chad Pytel is president of thoughtbot, inc. a software development consulting firm that specializes in agile, test-driven web application development using the Ruby on Rails framework located in Boston, MA, and New York, NY. A firm believer in the Model-View-Controller design pattern and realistic software development, with a history in Java and EJB development, Chad strongly believes that Ruby and Ruby on Rails represents a new, exciting, and better way to develop software.
Chad lives with his wife in Somerville, MA. When not at the office managing projects and writing code, Chad enjoys acting in and producing theater, film, and improv comedy. To follow along with Chad and the rest of the thoughtbot team’s thoughts on business, design, development, and technology, visit their blog at giantrobots.thoughtbot.com.

Jon Yurek is CTO at thoughtbot, inc. Born a programmer, Jon has been developing software professionally since 1999. After seeing the elegant and expressive power of Ruby, Jon quickly moved all new development at thoughtbot away from Java and Perl to using Ruby and Rails.
Jon is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and currently lives in Somerville, MA.

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Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Apress (January 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599330

Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today’s forward–looking business plans. With many of these solutions being moved to the Web, the popular Rails framework and its underlying Ruby language are playing a major role alongside web services in building the reporting solutions of tomorrow.

Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is the first book to comprehensively introduce this popular framework, guiding readers through a wide–ranging array of features. Note this isn’t a staid guide to generating traditional reports, but rather it shows you how the Ruby language and Rails framework can create truly compelling reporting services by plugging into popular third-party applications and services such as Google AdWords, UPS.com, iTunes, and SalesForce.com.

What you’ll learn

• Create reporting solutions for both the Web and the desktop.
• Integrate with powerful third–party retail solutions such as eBay, and Amazon.com in order to monitor your sales campaigns in real–time.
• Build an invoice reporting system using Rails and PayPal.
• Monitor your sales performance by taking advantage of SugarCRM’s web service offerings.

Who is this book for?

Ruby and Rails developers seeking to create compelling business intelligence and reporting solutions using a wide variety of applications and services.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

Related Titles

• Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
• Practical Ruby Gems
• Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional

About the Author

Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He’s used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb’s Journal. Prior to this he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.

His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby.com (http://coolruby.com), a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot (http://www.thoughtbot.com.) on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America’s Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow’s BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby.

David’s journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb’s Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He’s also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as “MySQL and You” and “Making Money with Open Source Software.”

He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.

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