The Art of Rails

Ruby on Rails offers the ability to rapidly design and write
high-quality code with elegance and maintainability. Written by an
experienced web application developer, this book explains how to
take good Rails code and turn it into beautiful Rails code: simple,
effective, reusable, evolvable code. He discusses the very latest
in design patterns, programming abstractions, and development
methodologies that have emerged for the modern web. With each
design technique, you?ll discover how to make your own additions to
Rails and craft a development environment tailored to your specific
needs.

Autorentext
Edward Benson is a Staff Scientist with BBN Technologies in Arlington, Virginia. Ted's work at BBN includes the design and implementation of agent-based logistics and data processing architectures and semantically-enabled data recording and processing environments (often called the "Semantic Web"). He is a member of the IEEE and has published papers on both grid and agent computing techniques. Ted is an experienced web applications developer and a co-author of Professional Rich Internet Applications, arriving in bookstores March 2007. For BBN he wrote and maintains an internal Rails-based software module tracker for a technology called Bracket that allows developers to register plugins they've written and search for those of others.

Zusammenfassung
Ruby on Rails offers the ability to rapidly design and write high-quality code with elegance and maintainability. Written by an experienced web application developer, this book explains how to take good Rails code and turn it into beautiful Rails code: simple, effective, reusable, evolvable code. He discusses the very latest in design patterns, programming abstractions, and development methodologies that have emerged for the modern web. With each design technique, you?ll discover how to make your own additions to Rails and craft a development environment tailored to your specific needs.

Inhalt

1. Emergence(y) of the New Web.

2. The Rails Concept.

3. The Server as an Application.

4. Getting the Most from M, V, and C.

5. Beautiful Web APIs.

6. Resources and REST.

7. The Five Styles of AJAX.

8. Playing with Blocks.

9. Mixins and Monkey Patching.

10. Code That Writes Code (That Writes Code).

11. How I Loved to Stop Worrying and Love the Schema.

12. Behavior-Driven Development and RSpec.

Index.