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Ruby on Rails For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer Tech))
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by Barry Burd
Sales Rank: 164477
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Discount: 34 %
$5.55
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Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: For Dummies January 10, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470081201
ISBN-13: 978-0470081204
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Book Description
Quickly create Web sites with this poweful tool
Use this free and easy programming language for e-commerce sites and blogs
If you need to build Web and database applications quickly but you don't dream in computer code, take heart! Ruby on Rails was created for you, and this book will have you up and running in no time. The Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework let you create full-featured Web applications fast. It's even fun!
Discover how to - Install and run Ruby and Rails
- Use the RadRails IDE
- Create a blog with Ruby
- Connect your Web site to a database
- Build a shopping cart
- Explore Ruby's syntax
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Quickly create Web sites with this poweful tool
Use this free and easy programming language for e-commerce sites and blogs
If you need to build Web and database applications quickly but you don't dream in computer code, take heart! Ruby on Rails was created for you, and this book will have you up and running in no time. The Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework let you create full-featured Web applications fast. It's even fun!
Discover how to - Install and run Ruby and Rails
- Use the RadRails IDE
- Create a blog with Ruby
- Connect your Web site to a database
- Build a shopping cart
- Explore Ruby's syntax
Customer Reviews & Comments
First I want to make clear who this book is for an who it isn't. If you are a real programmer, not someone like me with just a smattering of PHP and JavaScript, you will find this book entirely too basic. It is a true Dummies book, an introduction not a complete course. If you tried the Ruby on Rails (RoR) bible, Agile Web Development with Rails, and found it a bit over your head, you should find this an kinder and gentler primer. Ruby on Rails for Dummies assumes absolutely no prior programming experience. It doesn't even assume any command line knowledge. It does assume a decent grounding in HTML and CSS, but that's true of any web based programming book. Going directly from a visual web layout tool to RoR will be too big a leap. It would be like trying to complete a 10 K run after practicing by jogging a mile three times a week for a month or so. You might get through it but the process would be more than a bit painful. But if you have your hand coding chops but no real programming background you should find this book a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. It made a number of ideas clear that the Agile book assumed I was already familiar with. It provides a nice quick start to RadRails, a free RoR development environment, which somewhat insulates you from the straight command line approach taken my more advanced RoR texts and provides a pre-packaged Ruby on Rails development environment. There is also a short introduction to the Ruby programming language. It's very basic but probably helpful. Ruby on Rails for Dummies proceeds step-by-step through a couple of very simple RoR applications. It's enough to get your feet wet and make more advanced books approachable. It does not provide enough of a knowledge base to actually go out and start developing web applications. You'll still need to get a more advanced book but at least you will have a decent foundation on which to build.
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