Advanced Rails Recipes

by Mike Clark, Chad Fowler

Ruby on Rails continues to build up a tremendous head of steam. Fueled by significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in coming years. Each new Rails application showing up on the web adds yet more to the collective wisdom of the Rails development community. Yesterday's best practices yield to today's latest and greatest techniques, as the state of the art is continually refined in kitchens all across the Internet. Indeed, these are times of great progress. At the same time, it's easy to get left behind in the wake of progress. Advanced Rails Recipes keeps you on the cutting edge of Rails development and, more importantly, continues to turn this fast-paced framework to your advantage. Advanced Rails Recipes is filled with pragmatic recipes you'll use on every Rails project. And by taking the code in these recipes and slipping it into your application you'll not only deliver your application quicker, you'll do so with the confidence that it's done right. The book includes contributions from Aaron Batalion, Adam Keys, Adam Wiggins, Andre Lewis, Andrew Kappen, Benjamin Curtis, Ben Smith, Chris Bernard, Chris Haupt, Chris Wanstrath, Cody Fauser, Dan Benjamin, Dan Manges, Daniel Fischer, David Bock, David Chelimsky, David Heinemeier Hansson, Erik Hatcher, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Giles Bowkett, Greg Hansen, Gregg Pollack, Hemant Kumar, Hugh Bien, JamieOrchard-Hays, Jamis Buck, Jared Haworth, Jarkko Laine, Jason LaPier, Jay Fields, John Dewey, Jonathan Dahl, Josep Blanquer, Josh Stephenson, Josh Susser, Kevin Clark, Luke Francl, Mark Bates, Marty Haught, Matthew Bass, Michael Slater, Mike Clark, Mike Hagedorn, Mike Mangino, Mike Naberezny, Mike Subelsky, Nathaniel Talbott, PJ Hyett, Patrick Reagan, Peter Marklund, Pierre-Alexandre Meyer, Rick Olson, Ryan Bates, Scott Barron, Tony Primerano, Val Aleksenko, and Warren Konkel.

Genres: Programming, Software, Nonfiction, Technology, Computers

447 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2007

About the author

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Mike Clark is an author, speaker, consultant, and most importantly, he's a programmer. He is co-author of Bitter EJB (Manning), editor of the JUnit FAQ, and frequent speaker at software development conferences. Mike has been crafting software professionally since 1992 in the fields of aerospace, telecommunications, financial services, and the Internet. In addition to helping develop commercial software tools, Mike is the creator of several popular open-source tools including JUnitPerf and JDepend.

Reviews

[Otis Chandler · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this on a plane, and dogeared about 10 of the recipes for later inspection. Those people on the edge of Rails move fast, and this was a great way to keep on top of things. Not to mention it looks like it will save a ton of time, as it solves a lot of common problems for you!

[Michael Economy · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you spend significant time working in rails, then its worth a skim over. There are a few cool tricks i didn't know about, and its a good jumping off point.

[Nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The edition I own is based on Rails 2.1 (I am not sure if there are more recent editions of the book). I currently use Rails 2.3.8 and will be soon moving to Rails 3, so this book is starting to get dated. However, some of the recipes can be adapted to the latest version, so if you are interested in expanding your knowledge of Rails and have already exhausted your "Agile Web Development" book, this is worth checking out.

If you are not the how-to book type, or want to learn more about the cutting-edge of Rails development, there are plenty of resources online that go above and beyond this book.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote two recipes for this book so I am biased :-)

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Must have for any RoR developer.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent book of patterns and sample apps that can be practically applied in Rails projects from the get go.