Ruby on Rails for all. - Colophon

Contents

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails

Section 1.1. Rails Strengths

Section 1.2. Putting Rails into Action

Section 1.3. Organization

Section 1.4. The Web Server

Section 1.5. Creating a Controller

Section 1.6. Building a View

Section 1.7. Tying the Controller to the View

Section 1.8. Under the Hood

Section 1.9. What's Next?

Chapter 2. Active Record Basics

Section 2.1. Active Record Basics

Section 2.2. Introducing Photo Share

Section 2.3. Schema Migrations

Section 2.4. Basic Active Record Classes

Section 2.5. Attributes

Section 2.6. Complex Classes

Section 2.7. Behavior

Section 2.8. Moving Forward

Chapter 3. Active Record Relationships

Section 3.1. belongs_to

Section 3.2. has_many

Section 3.3. has_one

Section 3.4. What You Haven't Seen

Section 3.5. Looking Ahead

Chapter 4. Scaffolding

Section 4.1. Using the Scaffold Method

Section 4.2. Replacing Scaffolding

Section 4.3. Generating Scaffolding Code

Section 4.4. Moving Forward

Chapter 5. Extending Views

Section 5.1. The Big Picture

Section 5.2. Seeing Real Photos

Section 5.3. View Templates

Section 5.4. Setting the Default Root

Section 5.5. Stylesheets

Section 5.6. Hierarchical Categories

Section 5.7. Styling the Slideshows

Chapter 6. Ajax

Section 6.1. How Rails Implements Ajax

Section 6.2. Playing a Slideshow

Section 6.3. Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides

Section 6.4. Drag and Drop Everything (Almost Everything)

Section 6.5. Filtering by Category

Chapter 7. Testing

Section 7.1. Background

Section 7.2. Ruby's Test::Unit

Section 7.3. Testing in Rails

Section 7.4. Wrapping Up

Appendix A. Installing Rails

Section 1.1. Windows

Section 2.1. OS X

Section 3.1. Linux

Appendix B. Quick Reference

Section 5.1. General

Section 5.2. Testing

Section 5.3. RJS (Ruby JavaScript)

Section 5.4. Active Record

Section 5.5. Controllers

Section 5.6. Views

Section 5.7. Ajax

Section 5.8. Configuring Your Application

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Ruby on Rails for all.

Colophon

The animal on the cover of Ruby on Rails: Up and Running is an ibex (Capra pyrenaica). Found in the mountains of Europe, central Asia, and North Africa, the ibex spends most of its time at an altitude of 7,500 to 11,500 feet. The ibex is known for its impressively long horns, which can grow up to three feet on males. During mating season, ibex males bang their horns together in intense battles over mating rights.

Although the physics of such a feat seems dubious, according to legend, the ibex's horns were so strong that, if threatened, the animal could hurl itself from a precipice and land unharmed on them.

The cover image is from Riverside Natural History. The cover font is Adobe ITC Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed.