Author: Justin Williams
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: rails, easy, made, ruby, solutions
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1590597524
ISBN-13: 9781590597521

In this book you’ll learn: How to develop web applications quickly and easily with the Ruby on Rails framework The basics of programming principles and Ruby syntax, so you can begin to understand whats going on under the hood How to implement must-have web application features, such as user accounts, data validation, sending e-mail, image uploading, and more How to use Ajax techniques with Rails and when not to use them How to implement other Web 2.0 features in Rails, such as tag clouds and microformats If you’re a web designer or developer who t

Author: Peter Armstrong
Publisher: Manning Publications
Keywords: rails, flex, flexible
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-01-23
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 1933988509
ISBN-13: 9781933988504

Flexible Rails is a unique, application-based guide for using Ruby on Rails 2 and Adobe Flex 3 to build rich Internet applications (RIAs). It is not an exhaustive Ruby on Rails or Flex reference. Instead, it is an extensive tutorial in which the reader builds multiple iterations of an interesting RIA using Flex and Rails together. Author Peter Armstrong walks readers through eleven iterations in which the sample application--pomodo--is variously built, refactored, debugged, sliced, diced and otherwise explored from every conceivable angle with respect to Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex. The bo

Author: Ola Bini
Publisher: Apre
Keywords: java, rails, voice, expert, ruby, projects, jruby, web, practical, bringing
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2007-09-24
List price: $42.99
ISBN-10: 1590598814
ISBN-13: 9781590598818

Discover how JRuby on Rails can be used to create web applications faster and more efficiently while still taking advantage of the vast power of the Java platform. Ruby on Rails is proving itself to be one of the most efficient and powerful agile web development application frameworks available and has had a profound influence on the Java community. The JRuby project offers Java developers the best of two worlds: the flexibility of Ruby on Rails coupled with the enterprise-level power and maturity of the Java platform. JRuby core developer Ola Bini covers everything you need to know to take f

Author: Rails-to-Trails ConservancyRails-to-Trails Conser
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Keywords: arizona, nevada, california, west, trails, rail
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0899974899
ISBN-13: 9780899974897

In this newest edition in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the best of the West. With 70 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 1,050 miles, Rail-Trails West covers 60 trails in California, eight in Arizona, and two in Nevada. Many rail-trails offer escapes from city life, like the Mount Lowe Railway Trail, high above the buzzing Los Angeles basin on a rail line vacationers once took to a mountaintop resort. Others offer the pure sensory thrill of sweeping terrain, like Arizona’s 7-mile Prescott Peavine Trail. Still more juxtapose the natural worl

Author: Dan Chak
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: rails, enterprise
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-10-24
List price: $44.99
ISBN-10: 0596515200
ISBN-13: 9780596515201

What does it take to develop an enterprise application with Rails? Enterprise Rails introduces several time-tested software engineering principles to prepare you for the challenge of building a high-performance, scalable website with global reach. You’ll learn how to design a solid architecture that ties the many parts of an enterprise website together, including the database, your servers and clients, and other services as well. Many Rails developers think that planning for scale is unnecessary. But there’s nothing worse than an application that fails because it can’t handle

Author: Eldon Alameda
Publisher: friends of ED
Keywords: rails, foundation
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-10-27
List price: $42.99
ISBN-10: 1430210397
ISBN-13: 9781430210399

You’ve heard about this amazing web framework called Ruby on Rails that’s taken the world by storm but thought it was way too complex for you? Think again. Foundation Rails 2 takes you through your first steps in Rails, explaining in plain English how to start building dynamic web applications. And there’s never been a better time to jump in to the Rails world, as the release of Rails 2 is a major evolutionary leap forward from previous versions. Unlike other Rails books, this book doesn’t throw you into the deep end right away in the hopes that you’ll learn to sw

Author: Frank. P Morse
Publisher: Morse Press
Keywords: rails, cavalcade
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $31.45
ISBN-10: 1406757411
ISBN-13: 9781406757415

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CAVALCADE OF THE RAILS BY FRANK P. MORSE Illustrated 1940 NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, INC. Copyright, 1940 By E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed in the U. S. A. First printing February 1940 Second printing February 1940 This heavy freight train on the Norfolk & Western, capable of making a mile a minute, offers a picturesque contrast to the covered wagons that once crossed the plains at a little better than a mile an hour. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction: THE ROMANCE OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY 9 CHAPTER i THE LION’S FIRST