Practical Rails Projects

✍ Scribed by Eldon Alameda (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 628
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The best way to learn Rails is by creating a variety of applications with it.

You already know the basics of Rails, and you're familiar with the exciting features and benefits associated with using this Ruby–based framework. You're now at the point where you need to gain firsthand experience with Rails by thoroughly exploring the features and building several different types of web applications.

Eldon Alameda takes a focused approach to guiding you through the creation of multiple real-world examples that are designed to get your hands dirty with the core features of Rails, while providing you with the valuable experience of creating real Rails applications.

Projects you'll work on include creating a simple blog with an external API, constructing a workout tracker with a RESTful interface and graphs, and converting an existing PHP site to Rails while adding an advanced JavaScript interface. As an added bonus, the final project makes use of the edge version of Rails as you build an application that utilizes Active Resource, which provides an opportunity to explore the various changes and features that will be included with Rails 2.0. Each project is designed to provide you with the necessary information and tools to give you a running start at solving that problem yourself, and each project includes a number of additional ideas and exercises for ways that you can extend each application to fit your own needs.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Building a Development Environment....Pages 3-22
Creating a Rails Application....Pages 23-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-34
Implementing a User Registration and Authentication System....Pages 35-55
Building a Daily To-Do Manager....Pages 57-83
Enhancing Monkey Tasks....Pages 85-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Developing a REST-Based Application....Pages 93-153
Adding Graphs to Our Application....Pages 155-180
Enhancing Exercisr....Pages 181-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Building a Blog Using Typo....Pages 187-222
Building a Simple Blog Engine....Pages 223-264
Enhancing Our Blogs....Pages 265-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-270
Building Our Base System with Page Caching....Pages 271-297
Implementing Advanced Caching....Pages 299-314
Enhancing the Web Comic....Pages 315-317
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Managing Users and Profiles....Pages 321-363
Rounding out the Community....Pages 365-388
Enhancing the Church Community Application....Pages 389-394
Front Matter....Pages 395-396
Understanding the Problems of the Legacy PHP Site....Pages 397-417
Converting Game Records....Pages 419-499
Supporting News....Pages 501-534
Front Matter....Pages 395-396
Enhancing the Gaming Site....Pages 535-540
Front Matter....Pages 541-541
Brief Overview of Highrise....Pages 543-548
Integrating to the Highrise REST API....Pages 549-558
Building the Appointment Scheduler....Pages 559-583
Enhancing Our Rails 2.0 Application....Pages 585-589
Back Matter....Pages 591-621

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques