Ruby Books
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The Definitive Guide to Grails
Published 12 years ago includes sample chapter
by Graeme Rocher, Jeff Brown, Apress
The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a Rails–like framework. Enter Grails. Grails is not just a Rails clone, it aims to provide a Rails–like environment that is more familiar to Java
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JavaServer Faces
Published 16 years ago
by Hans Bergsten, O'Reilly Media
JavaServer Faces, or JSF, brings a component-based model to web application development that's similar to the model that's been used in standalone GUI applications for years. The technology builds on the experience gained from Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, and numerous commercial and open source web application frameworks that simplify the development process. In JavaServer Faces, developers learn how to use this new framework to build real-world web applications.
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Beginning Rails 3
Published 11 years ago
by Jeffrey Allan Hardy, Cloves Carneiro Jr., Rida Al Barazi, Apress
Beginning Rails 3 is the practical starting point for anyone wanting to learn how to build dynamic web applications using the latest release of the Rails framework for Ruby. You'll learn how all of the components of Rails fit together and how you can leverage them to create sophisticated web applications with less code and more joy. This book is particularly well suited to those with little or no experience with web application development, or who have some experience but are new to Rails.
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Rails in a Nutshell
Published 10 years ago
by Fauser Cody, MacAulay James, Guenin John, OcampoGooding Edward, O'Reilly Media
Get the high-quality documentation you need to create effective database-driven websites with the popular Rails framework. Rails in a Nutshell is the first book available on the latest version, Rails 3.0. It provides you with a concise yet thorough introduction to the framework, an overview of commands and configurations, and a comprehensive reference to every method -- all in one handy, easy-to-use reference.
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Ajax on Rails
Published 14 years ago
by Scott Raymond, O'Reilly Media
Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches intermediate to advanced web developers how to use both Ajax and Rails to quickly build high-performance, scalable applications without being overwhelmed with thousands of lines of JavaScript code.
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Ruby in Practice
Published 11 years ago
by Jeremy McAnally, Assaf Arkin, Manning Publications
Ruby in Practice increases your productivity by showing you specific Ruby techniques you can use in your projects. The book offers detailed strategies for using Ruby in a large-scale environment. You'll see concrete examples of integration, messaging, web development, and databases, all presented in a clear Problem/Solution format. This book won't help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time.
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The Art of Rails (Programmer to Programmer)
Published 12 years ago
by Edward Benson, Wrox
Ruby on Rails offers the ability to rapidly design and write high-quality code with elegance and maintainability. Written by an experienced web application developer, this book explains how to take good Rails code and turn it into beautiful Rails code: simple, effective, reusable, evolvable code. He discusses the very latest in design patterns, programming abstractions, and development methodologies that have emerged for the modern web.
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Learning Rails: Live Edition
Published 10 years ago
by Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly Media
Ready to learn Rails? Get up to speed using the frameworkâs latest release. In this Live Edition, Learning Rails has been updated to cover Rails 2.3.5, making it an ideal guide for Rails beginners.Unlike most Rails books, Learning Rails is for web developers, and not for programmers. Rather than begin with the inner layers of a Rails web application -- the models and controllers -- this book approaches Rails development from the outer layer: the view side of an application.
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XMPP: The Definitive Guide: Building Real-Time Applications with Jabber Technologies
Published 11 years ago
by Peter SaintAndre, Kevin Smith, Remko Tronon, O'Reilly Media
This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time communication is used in many diverse applications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight middleware, cloud computing, and more.
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ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed
Published 11 years ago
by Stephen Walther, Sams
ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed explains everything you need to know to start building web applications with the new Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. This book makes no assumptions about your background knowledge about MVC. All code samples are included in both Visual Basic .NET and C#. You learn how to take advantage of the ASP.NET MVC framework to build highly testable web applications. You learn how to create tests for every part of an MVC application including its data access code.