Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson Published

Developers the world over are talking about Ruby on Rails, a new approach to web development that makes it easier than ever to create rich, sophisticated, and maintainable web applications. Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Bookshelf) is the first book to cover Rails.

Using this book, readers will:

• follow along with an extended tutorial as we write a web-based store application
  
• learn how Rails eliminates tedious configuration and application knitting
  
• understand how to use Rails' code generators to create working prototypes within minutes, and how to build on that code to refine the functionality incrementally
  
• see how to include technologies such as AJAX, web services, and e-mail handling into their code
  
• test their applications as they write them using the built-in unit and functional testing frameworks
  
• deploy applications into an unfriendly, demanding world

Beginners and experts alike will keep coming back to this book while developing and deploying their Rails applications.

The book was written by leaders in the field: As one of the authors of The Agile Manifesto, Dave Thomas understands agility. As the author of Programming Ruby he understands Ruby and how to describe writing Ruby applications. David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of the Rails framework. Leon Breedt wrote the web services component of Rails. Mike Clark is an international expert on testing techniques. Thomas Fuchs contributed much of the AJAX support for Rails. Andreas Schwarz wrote the online manual on security for Rails. This is the dream team for writing not just the first Rails book, but the definitive Rails book.

Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, and Andreas Schwarz, ISBN 0-9766940-0-X, 570 pages

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