Rails: Novice to Ninja (SitePoint)
Wednesday, 07 December 2016

This is a practical and fun guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners by Glenn Goodrich. It takes you from installing Ruby, Rails and SQLite to building and deploying a fully-featured web application. The third edition of this book has been fully updated to cover Rails 5, the latest version of the framework.

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The book assumes no knowledge of Ruby, starting from the very beginning with an entire chapter is devoted to learning Ruby in a fun way, using the interactive Ruby console.

The rest of the book goes through using Rails to build a practical, working project: a Reddit-like social news application. This is used to illustrate Rails features such as user authentication, session cookies, and automated testing. The book finishes with chapters on debugging, benchmarking and deployment to a live web server.

Author: Glenn Goodrich
Publisher: SitePoint
Date: November 2016
Pages: 475
ISBN: 978-0994347008
Print: 0994347006
Kindle: B01N3W3U49
Audience: Developers wanting to learn Ruby
Level: Entry
Category: Ruby 

 

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