Ruby for Rails
Chapter download: "Excerpt 1: A First Crack at Knowing What Your Code Does; Excerpt 2: Starting to Use Ruby to Do More in Your Code; Excerpt 3: Accomplishing Application-Related Skills and Tasks"
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The first section of "Ruby-Informed Rails Development" examines the relationship between Ruby and Rail and provides important premises for understanding your Rails code. In the second excerpt, you'll learn Ruby techniques in the Rails framework that enhance your applications' functionalities and increase the ease with which you improve them. The third excerpt demonstrates how to convert legacy data to a Rails-usable format using Ruby and introduces the irb-based application console.
Copyright © 2006 by Manning Publications. All rights reserved.
Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers
by David A. Black
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About the Author(s)
David A. Black is a director of Ruby Central, the parent organization of the annual International Ruby Conference and the International Rails Conference. He is a Ruby core contributor, and creates and maintains the Rails-based Ruby Change Request Archive. He works as a consultant in New Jersey.
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