Wiley Professional Ruby on Rails

Make your beginner Web site great with Professional Ruby on Rails. This book bridges the gap between what you'll learn from a typical beginner book about Ruby on Rails and what you'll need to know to create a solid, professional, spectacular, complex web application. It covers topics of interest to a web professional who is trying to develop and deploy a complex application. The current Rails books are either beginner books, cookbook-style books, or specifically aimed at Ajax development. This book will fill the void to discuss in-depth the information that a developer would need in order to move from a basic site to a fully featured web application. Using REST to structure your application cleanly How to test and deploy your application for maximum automation with minimal headache Protecting your site and your user's data Using Rails to create the kinds of interactions that web users are coming to expect Building Resources Rails Source Control with Subversion Adding Users Build Tools and Automation Navigation and Social Networking The Care and Feeding of Databases Testing Tools Rails - Driven JavaScript Talking to the Web Internationalizing Your Application The Graphic Arts Deploying Your Application Performance Going Meta Extending Rails with Plugins Replacing Ruby Tools Things You Should Download Web Frameworks Inspired by Rails