1. Chapter 1 Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails

   1. Rails Strengths

   2. Putting Rails into Action

   3. Organization

   4. The Web Server

   5. Creating a Controller

   6. Building a View

   7. Tying the Controller to the View

   8. Under the Hood

   9. What's Next?

2. Chapter 2 Active Record Basics

   1. Active Record Basics

   2. Introducing Photo Share

   3. Schema Migrations

   4. Basic Active Record Classes

   5. Attributes

   6. Complex Classes

   7. Behavior

   8. Moving Forward

3. Chapter 3 Active Record Relationships

   1. belongs_to

   2. has_many

   3. has_one

   4. What You Haven't Seen

   5. Looking Ahead

4. Chapter 4 Scaffolding

   1. Using the Scaffold Method

   2. Replacing Scaffolding

   3. Generating Scaffolding Code

   4. Moving Forward

5. Chapter 5 Extending Views

   1. The Big Picture

   2. Seeing Real Photos

   3. View Templates

   4. Setting the Default Root

   5. Stylesheets

   6. Hierarchical Categories

   7. Styling the Slideshows

6. Chapter 6 Ajax

   1. How Rails Implements Ajax

   2. Playing a Slideshow

   3. Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides

   4. Drag and Drop Everything (Almost Everything)

   5. Filtering by Category

7. Chapter 7 Testing

   1. Background

   2. Ruby's Test::Unit

   3. Testing in Rails

   4. Wrapping Up

1. Appendix A Installing Rails

   1. Windows

   2. OS X

   3. Linux

2. Appendix B Quick Reference

   1. General

   2. Testing

   3. RJS (Ruby JavaScript)

   4. Active Record

   5. Controllers

   6. Views

   7. Ajax

   8. Configuring Your Application

3. Colophon

The animal on the cover of Ruby on Rails: Up and Running is an ibex (Capra pyrenaica). Found in the mountains of Europe, central Asia, and North Africa, the ibex spends most of its time at an altitude of 7,500 to 11,500 feet. The ibex is known for its impressively long horns, which can grow up to three feet on males. During mating season, ibex males bang their horns together in intense battles over mating rights.

Although the physics of such a feat seems dubious, according to legend, the ibex's horns were so strong that, if threatened, the animal could hurl itself from a precipice and land unharmed on them.

The cover image is from Riverside Natural History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.