Olejar Books

Rails burst on the scene in 2004, a framework built on Ruby to allow rapid development of powerful web applications. From humble beginnings, the project has gone on to be adopted by major companies like Google. This book stands out from other Rails books by being aimed squarely at designers/non-programmers, who may find reams of code intimidating. Instead of obsessing over every method and component, this book gives the reader just what they need to put together powerful dynamic sites quickly and easily. It starts off with a gentle introduction, then walks the reader through setting up their development environment (including databases,) the basics of Ruby syntax, The rest of the book is a series of walkthroughs detailing how to build up a number of real world applications, including a message posting system including data authentication,) file uploader, Ajax enhancements, and much more. Towards the end of the book, advanced topics are also covered, including customizing views, Rails helpers, add-ons and plugins, and deploying Rails. The book supports the latest versions of Rails and MySQL.