The Art Of Rails

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The Art of Rails is a book about the design of modern web applications. This book identifies and describes the fundamental design strategies that have emerged for the New Web and demonstrates their application with Ruby on Rails-based examples. Discussion is kept technical but casual, and code examples serve to illustrate the point without causing the reader's eyes to gloss over. The book accomplishes two important objectives: to teach good Rails programmers how to be great Rails designers, and to communicate to non-Rails developers the fundamental design strategies that constitute the “Rails” concept so that they may be employed a la carte to their own web development.

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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. Table Of Contents Emergence(y) of the New Web The Rails Concept The Server as an Application Getting the Most from M, V, and C Beautiful Web APIs Resources and REST The Five Styles of AJAX. Playing with Blocks Mixins and Monkey Patching Code That Writes Code (That Writes Code) How I Loved to Stop Worrying and Love the Schema Behavior-Driven Development and RSpec Index