Agile Development with Rails
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Author(s): D. Thomas and D. Heinemeier et al.
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 097669400X
Format: softback
558pp
Price: £24.95
Review Date: 21 October 2005
Review: Rails are written in Ruby, a modern, object-oriented scripting language. It is a framework that facilitates developing, deploying and maintaining Web applications. The first two parts of the book provide an introduction to the concepts behind Rails, with an extended example of building a simple online shop. The third part of the book looks in detail at the functions and facilities of Rails. It explains how to use the various Rails components and deploy Rails applications efficiently and safely. Readers will be able to use Rails’ code generators to create working prototypes within minutes and build code to refine functionality incrementally. They will also be able to include technologies such as AJAX Web services, and email handling in their code.