Learning Rails
Learning Rails By Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill
November 2008
Pages: 442

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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Starting Up Ruby on Rails

    1. Getting Started in the Online Cloud: Heroku

    2. Getting Started with Instant Rails

    3. Getting Started at the Command Line

    4. What Server Is That?

    5. Test Your Knowledge

  2. Chapter 2 Rails on the Web

    1. Creating Your Own View

    2. What Are All Those Folders?

    3. Adding Some Data

    4. How Hello World Works

    5. Protecting Your View from the Controller

    6. Parentheses Are (Usually) Optional

    7. Adding Logic to the View

    8. Test Your Knowledge

  3. Chapter 3 Adding Web Style

    1. I Want My CSS!

    2. Layouts

    3. Setting a Default Page

    4. Test Your Knowledge

  4. Chapter 4 Controlling Data Flow: Controllers and Models

    1. Getting Started, Greeting Guests

    2. Application Flow

    3. Keeping Track: A Simple Guestbook

    4. Finding Data with ActiveRecord

    5. Test Your Knowledge

  5. Chapter 5 Accelerating Development with Scaffolding and REST

    1. A First Look at Scaffolding

    2. REST and Controller Best Practices

    3. Examining a RESTful Controller

    4. Escaping the REST Prison

    5. Test Your Knowledge

  6. Chapter 6 Presenting Models with Forms

    1. More Than a Name on a Form

    2. Generating HTML Forms with Scaffolding

    3. Form As a Wrapper

    4. Creating Text Fields and Text Areas

    5. Creating Checkboxes

    6. Creating Radio Buttons

    7. Creating Selection Lists

    8. Dates and Times

    9. Labels

    10. Creating Helper Methods

    11. Putting the Form Body in a Partial

    12. Test Your Knowledge

  7. Chapter 7 Strengthening Models with Validation

    1. Without Validation

    2. The Original Model

    3. The Power of Declarative Validation

    4. Managing Secrets

    5. A Place on the Calendar

    6. Beyond Simple Declarations

    7. Test Your Knowledge

  8. Chapter 8 Improving Forms

    1. Adding a Picture by Uploading a File

    2. Standardizing Your Look with Form Builders

    3. Test Your Knowledge

  9. Chapter 9 Developing Model Relationships

    1. Connecting Awards to Students

    2. Connecting Students to Awards

    3. Nesting Awards in Students

    4. Many-to-Many: Connecting Students to Courses

    5. What’s Missing?

    6. Test Your Knowledge

  10. Chapter 10 Managing Databases with Migrations

    1. What Migrations Offer You

    2. Migration Basics

    3. Inside Migrations

    4. Test Your Knowledge

  11. Chapter 11 Debugging

    1. Creating Your Own Debugging Messages

    2. Logging

    3. Working with Rails from the Console

    4. The Ruby Debugger

    5. Test Your Knowledge

  12. Chapter 12 Testing

    1. Test Mode

    2. Setting Up a Test Database with Fixtures

    3. Unit Testing

    4. Functional Testing

    5. Integration Testing

    6. Beyond the Basics

    7. Test Your Knowledge

  13. Chapter 13 Sessions and Cookies

    1. Getting Into and Out of Cookies

    2. Storing Data Between Sessions

    3. Test Your Knowledge

  14. Chapter 14 Users and Authentication

    1. Installation

    2. Storing User Data

    3. Controlling Sessions

    4. Classifying Users

    5. More Options

    6. Test Your Knowledge

  15. Chapter 15 Routing

    1. Creating Routes to Interpret URIs

    2. Generating URIs from Views and Controllers

    3. Infinite Possibilities

    4. Test Your Knowledge

  16. Chapter 16 Creating Dynamic Interfaces with Rails and Ajax

    1. Ajax Basics

    2. Supporting Ajax with Rails

    3. Managing Enrollment through Ajax

    4. Moving Further into Ajax

    5. Test Your Knowledge

  17. Chapter 17 Mail in Rails

    1. Sending Text Mail

    2. Sending HTML Mail

    3. Sending Complex HTML Email

    4. Receiving Mail

    5. Test Your Knowledge

  18. Chapter 18 Securing, Managing, and Deploying Your Rails Projects

    1. Securing Your Application

    2. Deploying Rails Applications

    3. Test Your Knowledge

  19. Chapter 19 Making the Most of Rails—And Beyond

    1. Keep Up with Rails

    2. Plug-ins

    3. Ruby

    4. Web Services

    5. Explore Other Ruby Frameworks

    6. Migrating Legacy Applications to Rails

    7. Keep Exploring

  1. Appendix An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Ruby

    1. How Ruby Works

    2. How Rails Works

    3. Getting Started with Classes and Objects

    4. Comments

    5. Variables, Methods, and Attributes

    6. Logic and Conditionals

  2. Appendix An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Relational Databases

    1. Tables of Data

    2. Databases, Tables, and Rails

  3. Appendix An Incredibly Brief Guide to Regular Expressions

    1. What Regular Expressions Do

    2. Starting Small

    3. The Simplest Expressions: Literal Strings

    4. Character Classes

    5. Escaping

    6. Modifiers

    7. Anchors

    8. Sequences, Repetition, Groups, and Choices

    9. Greed

    10. More

  4. Appendix A Catalog of Helper Methods

    1. Calling Helper Methods

    2. ActiveRecordHelper

    3. AssetTagHelper

    4. AtomFeedHelper and AtomFeedHelper::AtomFeedBuilder

    5. BenchmarkHelper, CacheHelper, and CaptureHelper

    6. DateHelper

    7. DebugHelper

    8. FormHelper, FormTagHelper, and FormOptionsHelper

    9. JavaScriptHelper

    10. NumberHelper

    11. PrototypeHelper

    12. RecordIdentificationHelper

    13. SanitizeHelper

    14. ScriptaculousHelper

    15. TagHelper

    16. TextHelper

    17. UrlHelper

  5. Appendix Glossary

    1. Speaking in Rails

  6. Colophon

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