... about.
1.1 Rails Is Agile
The title of this book is Agile Web Development with Rails. You ma y be sur-
prised to discover that we don’t have explicit sections on appl ying agile prac-
tices X, ... WEBrick is a pure-Ruby web server that is distributed with Ruby 1.8.1 and later. Because it
is guaranteed to be available, Rails uses it as its development web server. However, i...
... the framework itself contains.
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Agile Web Development with Rails
Fourth Edition
Sam Ruby
Dave Thomas
David Heinemeier Hansson
with
Leon Breedt
Mike Clark
James Duncan Davidson
Justin ... tell exactly, but our impression is that creating each edition
of Agile Web Development with Rails took about as much effort as the first
edition. Rails is constantly...
... that the cart includes the new product, we can show it to the user.
The controller arranges things so that the view has access to the cart object
from the model, and invokes the view code. In Rails, ... No XML!
1.1 Rails Is Agile
The title of this book is Agile Web Development with Rails.Youmaybe
surprised, then, to discover that we don’t have explicit sections o...
... thinking
it’s ea sy while they’re br owsing in the bookstores, and then hit them with the
enormity of their purcha se only after they’ve taken the book home.
We’re not that kind of book. Because ... accessible via the model,
but it will be a view that accesses the list from the model and formats it for
the end user. Although the view may present the user with various way...
... between Actions 311
16 .7 Filters and Verification 313
16 .8 Caching, Part One 318
16 .9 The Problem with GET Requests 324
17 Action View 327
17 .1 Templates 327
17 .2 Builder templates 329
17 .3 RHTML Templates ... Two 366
17 .11 Adding New Templating Systems 370
18 The Web, V2.0 373
18 .1 Introducing AJAX 373
18 .2 The Rails Way 376
18 .3 The User Interface, Revisited 384...
... Rails applications
must have cookies enabled in their browsers.)
Rather than have developers worry about protocols and cookies, Rails pro-
vides a simple abstraction. Within the controller, Rails ... sys-
tem, but unless you’re using Rails to work with legacy schemas that you
can’t change, we recommend you just stick with using the name
id.
It’s all very well coming up with the...
... etter software faster u sing agile practices. With an extensive back-
ground in J2EE and test-driven development, he’s currently putting his experience to
work on Rails projects.
Chapter 12
Task ... exercise).
11 .3 Iteration F3: Limiting Access
We want to prevent people without an administrative login from accessing
our site’s admin pages. It turns out that it’s easy to implement usi...
... :number => "123 45& quot;)
paul = Account.create(:balance => 200, :number => " ;54 321")
File 16 Account.transaction do
paul.deposit( 350 )
peter.withdraw( 350 )
end
When we run this, ... id | number | balance |
+ + + +
| 5 | 123 45 | 90.00 |
| 6 | 54 321 | 210.00 |
+ + + +
Now let’s get radical. If we start again but this time try to transfer $ 350 ,
we’ll run Pete...
... describe Action Controller in the context of Rails. Let’s
start by looking at the overall context of a Rails application.
16. 1 Context and Dependencies
Rails handles many configuration dependencies ... natural on the web, where static content is stored within folders (directories),
which themselves may be within folders, and so on.
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ADVANCED ATTRIBUTES 272
15 .6 Advance...
... RubyGems. Rails
comes packaged with its own copy of Builder, so you won’t have to download anything to get
started.
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CACHING,PART TWO 3 67
Refresh page
Figure 17. 7: Refreshing a Page with ... you’re updating will be compatible with that used
to generate its bretheren initially. We talk about the use of partials with
AJAX in Chapter 18, The Web, V2.0,onpage 373 .
Co...
... an array, with nice highlighting
of the search term in the result.
File 186 WORDLIST = %w (Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework in Ruby
for writing real-world applications with joy ... field
with real-time search capability (see Figure 18. 5 ). Note that in this exam-
ple, the search supports regular expressions.
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THE USER INTERFACE,REVISITED 388
Figure 18....
... exactly, but my impression is that creating this second
edition of Agile Web Development with Rails took about as much effort as the
first edition. Rails was constantly evolving and, as it did, ... about.
1.1 Rails Is Agile
The title of this book is A
g
ile Web Development with Rails. You may be sur-
prised to discover that we don’t have explicit sections on applying agile...