Rails 3 in Action

Summary
Rails 3 in Action is a collaboration between Rails community leaders, Ryan Bigg and Yehuda Katz, that covers Rails 3.1 making it the most up-to-date resource available. But it's much more than just a Rails 3 reference book. You'll learn to do Rails the right way, so you can build stable, scalable, and maintainable apps that will satisfy even the most demanding clients.About the Book
Rails 3 is a full stack, open source web framework powered by Ruby and this book is an introduction to it. Whether you're just starting or you have a few cycles under your belt, you'll appreciate the book's guru's-eye-view of idiomatic Rails programming.
You'll master Rails 3.1 by developing a ticket tracking application that includes RESTful routing, authentication and authorization, state maintenance, file uploads, email, and more. You'll also explore powerful features like designing your own APIs and building a Rails engine. You will see Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development in action throughout the book, just like you would in a top Rails shop.
It is helpful for readers to have a background in Ruby, but no prior Rails experience is needed.
Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside

• Covers Rails 3.1 from the ground up
• Testing and BDD using RSpec and Cucumber
• Working with Rack

Table of Contents

• Ruby on Rails, the framework
• Testing saves your bacon
• Developing a real Rails application
• Oh CRUD!
• Nested resources
• Authentication and basic authorization
• Basic access control
• More authorization
• File uploading
• Tracking state
• Tagging
• Sending email
• Designing an API
• Deployment
• Alternative authentication
• Basic performance enhancements
• Engines
• Rack-based applications