Rails 3 in Action

by Ryan Bigg, Ryan Bigg

Summary Rails 3 in Action is a collaboration between Rails community leaders, Ryan Bigg and Yehuda Katz, that covers Rails 3.1 making it the most up-to-date resource available. But it's much more than just a Rails 3 reference book. You'll learn to do Rails the right way, so you can build stable, scalable, and maintainable apps that will satisfy even the most demanding clients. About the Book Rails 3 is a full stack, open source web framework powered by Ruby and this book is an introduction to it. Whether you're just starting or you have a few cycles under your belt, you'll appreciate the book's guru's-eye-view of idiomatic Rails programming. You'll master Rails 3.1 by developing a ticket tracking application that includes RESTful routing, authentication and authorization, state maintenance, file uploads, email, and more. You'll also explore powerful features like designing your own APIs and building a Rails engine. You will see Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development in action throughout the book, just like you would in a top Rails shop. It is helpful for readers to have a background in Ruby, but no prior Rails experience is needed. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside

Genres: Programming, Computers, Reference

592 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2011

Reviews

[Peggy Condon · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book, with a focused presentation and real-world examples and gems. The book introduces and presents the examples with the BDD approach, using Cucumber and Rspec. The book was well written and easy to understand. If you don't like BDD this might not be the book for you though. Includes a nice discussion of middleware, engines and api development.

[Bjoern Rochel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was half way through and found it a bit repetitive but good read. I'm not sure whether I like their usage of cucumber and rspec, but hey it's a free world.

There's already the Beta available for Rails 4 in action. That's mainly why I don't finish this book. I'm going to re-read the new one.

[Sergey Shishkin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good, practical book on rails. Extra bonuses go for the accent on RSpec and Cucumber, and also covering Sinatra and Rack Middleware.

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommend this book to any Rails beginner. Ryan goes over a lot of different practical examples and best practices.

[Ahmed Attyah · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is a good introduction to people who are new to ruby on rails, the one thing i liked the most is that the authors used BDD with Cucumber for all examples in the book, highly recommended.

[Harshit Rastogi · Rating 4 out of 5]

great book to start with.. Good examples.. Focused on testing along with coding