Rails for Java Developers

by Halloway, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780977616695
• ISBN10: 097761669X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Getting started with Rails	p. 1
Programming Ruby	p. 19
Ruby eye for the Java guy	p. 53
Accessing data with ActiveRecord	p. 77
Coordinating activities with ActionController	p. 115
Rendering output with ActionView	p. 149
Testing	p. 181
Automating the development process	p. 217
Creating and invoking Web services	p. 231
Security	p. 267
Java to Ruby dictionary	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 293
Structure of a Rails project	p. 295
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