Agile web development with rails

[from back cover] Ruby on Rails is a full-stack MVC web framework that helps you produce high-quality, beautiful-looking web applications in less time than you'd think possible. You concentrate on the application, and rails takes care of the details. You can even write JavaScript-enable applications without writing a line of JavaScript code. Rails has Evolved over the years, and this book has evolved along with it. We still start with a step-by-step walkthrough of building a real application, and we still have in-depth chapters looking at the built-in Rails features. But we also now feature a new emphasis on Rails resources and highlight the best-practices used by today's Rails developers. With this book, you'll • Follow along with an extended tutorial as we write a web-based store application; • Learn how Rails eliminates tedious configuration and housekeeping; • Find out how to internationalize your applications; • See how to incorporate Ajax, REST, web services, and e-mail handling into your application; • Test your applications as you write them using the built-in unit, function, and integration-testing frameworks; and • Deploy your applications, easily and securely. This book covers Rails 2—it's a major rewrite of the previous edition.