Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill, Eric J Gruber - Learning Rails 3 [2012, PDF, ENG]

Chapter 1 : Starting Up Ruby on Rails
If You Run Windows, You’re Lucky
Getting Started at the Command Line
Starting Up Rails
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Chapter 2 : Rails on the Web
Creating Your Own View
What Are All Those Folders?
Adding Some Data
How Hello World Works
Adding Logic to the View
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Chapter 3 : Adding Web Style
I Want My CSS!
Specifying Stylesheets
Creating a Layout for a Controller
Choosing a Layout from a Controller
Sharing Template Data with the Layout
Setting a Default Page
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Chapter 4 : Managing Data Flow - Controllers and Models
Getting Started, Greeting Guests
Application Flow
Keeping Track: A Simple Guestbook
Finding Data with ActiveRecord
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Chapter 5 : Accelerating Development with Scaffolding and REST
A First Look at Scaffolding
REST and Controller Best Practices
Examining a RESTful Controller
Escaping the REST Prison
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Chapter 6 : Presenting Models with Forms
More Than a Name on a Form
Generating HTML Forms with Scaffolding
Form as a Wrapper
Creating Text Fields and Text Areas
Labels
Creating Checkboxes
Creating Radio Buttons
Creating Selection Lists
Dates and Times
Creating Helper Methods
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Chapter 7 : Strengthening Models with Validation
Without Validation
The Original Model
The Power of Declarative Validation
Managing Secrets
A Place on the Calendar
Beyond Simple Declarations
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Chapter 8 : Improving Forms
Adding a Picture by Uploading a File
Standardizing Your Look with Form Builders
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Chapter 9 : Developing Model Relationships
Connecting Awards to Students
Connecting Students to Awards
Nesting Awards in Students
Many-to-Many: Connecting Students to Courses
What’s Missing?
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Chapter 10 : Managing Databases with Migrations
What Migrations Offer You
Migration Basics
Inside Migrations
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Chapter 11 : Debugging
Creating Your Own Debugging Messages
Raising Exceptions
Logging
Working with Rails from the Console
The Ruby Debugger
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Chapter 12 : Testing
Test Mode
Setting Up a Test Database with Fixtures
Unit Testing
Functional Testing
Integration Testing
Beyond the Basics
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Chapter 13 : Sessions and Cookies
Getting Into and Out of Cookies
Storing Data Between Sessions
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Chapter 14 : Users and Authentication
Installation
Storing Identities
Storing User Data
Wiring OmniAuth into the Application
Classifying Users
More Options
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Chapter 15 : Routing
Creating Routes to Interpret URIs
Generating URIs from Views and Controllers
Infinite Possibilities
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Chapter 16 : From CSS to SASS
Getting Started
Sassy Style
Making Everything Work Together
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Chapter 17 : Managing Assets and Bundles
The Junk Drawer
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Chapter 18 : Sending Code to the Browser - JavaScript and CoffeeScript
Sending JavaScript to the Browser
Simplifying with CoffeeScript
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Chapter 19 : Mail in Rails
Sending Mail Messages
Receiving Mail
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Chapter 20 : Pushing Further into Rails
Changing to Production Mode
Deploying Is Much More Than Programming
Joining the Rails Ecosystem

Appendix : An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Ruby
How Ruby Works
How Rails Works
Getting Started with Classes and Objects
Comments
Variables, Methods, and Attributes
Logic and Conditionals

Appendix : An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Relational Databases
Tables of Data
Databases, Tables, and Rails

Appendix : An Incredibly Brief Guide to Regular Expressions
What Regular Expressions Do
Starting Small
The Simplest Expressions: Literal Strings
Character Classes
Escaping
Modifiers
Anchors
Sequences, Repetition, Groups, and Choices
Greed
More Possibilities

Appendix : Glossary
Speaking in Rails

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