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Rails for Java Developers
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by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland
Sales Rank: 186322
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Discount: 24 %
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf February 13, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 097761669X
ISBN-13: 978-0977616695
Product Dimensions:
8.7 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
Many Java developers are now looking at Ruby, and the Ruby on Rails web framework. If you are one of them, this book is your guide. Written by experienced developers who love both Java and Ruby, this book will show you, via detailed comparisons and commentary, how to translate your hard-earned Java knowledge and skills into the world of Ruby and Rails.
If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use this background to quickly learn Ruby and Rails. But Ruby looks a lot different from Java, and some of those differences support powerful abstractions that Java lacks. We'll be your guides to this new, but not strange, territory.
In each chapter, we build a series of parallel examples to demonstrate some facet of web development. Because the Rails examples sit next to Java examples, you can start this book in the middle, or anywhere else you want. You can use the Java version of the code, plus the analysis, to quickly grok what the Rails version is doing. We have carefully cross-referenced and indexed the book to facilitate jumping around as you need to.
Thanks to your background in Java, this one short book can cover a half-dozen books' worth of ideas: Programming Ruby Building MVC (Model/View/Controller) Applications Unit and Functional Testing Security Project Automation Configuration Web Services
About The Author
Stuart Dabbs Halloway is a co-founder of Relevance, LLC. Stuart is the author of Component Development for the Java Platform and regularly speaks at industry events including the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposiums and the Pragmatic Studio. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor, the industry's leading training company focusing exclusively on software developers. Long, long ago, Stuart worked as a lead engineer and project manager, shipping successful projects for Prentice Hall, National Geographic, and Duke University's Humanities Computing Facility. Justin Gehtland is a founding partner of Relevance, LLC. Justin has been a programmer, manager, consultant and trainer in the software business since 1994. He's currently focused on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Ajax. Justin is the co-author of Pragmatic Ajax, Spring: A Developer's Notebook, J2EE In a Nutshell (3rd Edition), Better, Faster, Lighter Java, Effective Visual and Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET. Prior to founding Relevance, Justin served as Director of Information Systems for DevelopMentor. Before that, he served as an instructor, teaching COM and COM+ programming as well as web development. He has been the lead architect, lead programmer and project manager on numerous successful projects for clients such as Shaw Systems, GE Medical Systems, Mosby Publishing, National Geographic, and Deloitte and Touche.
Customer Reviews & Comments
I had the privilege of seeing this book pre-release (being the Prsident of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group has its privileges...), and I must say, it contains material necessary for today's Java Programmer. Love it or hate it, Rails is a platform that is geting a lot of atention these days, and a competent softare engineer cannot afford to *not* have an opinion on it... The evolution of Java is being heavily influenced by ideas from this community. And why not? Good ideas ae good ideas, no matter where they come from. Clearly, Rails contains concepts that can be 'borrowed' and brought over into Java with great success - one just has to look at the landscape of recent open source projects to see this in action (and of course, a lot of these ideas were borrowed from the Java community in the first place). So, if you are a developer who has cut his teeth for years on Java, what is the shortest path to get up to speed with Rails? I have to recommend this book. It explains both Ruby and Rails by comparing and contrasting to things you are already familiar with from your Java experience. The authors are also exceptional presenters and writers - the book is written well and the ideas are clearly refined from battle-testing as presentation and classroom materials.
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