Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers by Antonio Cangiano

By Antonio Cangiano

This definitive consultant examines the right way to reap the benefits of the hot Agile methodologies provided whilst utilizing Ruby on Rails (RoR). you will speedy snatch the RoR technique through targeting the RoR improvement from the viewpoint of the newbie- to intermediate-level Microsoft developer. Plus, you will get a competent roadmap for migrating your functions, ability set, and improvement tactics to the more recent, extra agile programming platform that RoR deals.

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Shared hosting is an acceptable solution for non-critical applications and low volume websites, but it is neither ideal nor within Rails’ sweet spot. You can read more on deployment options and considerations in Chapter 11. Rails doesn’t usually prevent you from building any type of applications, but it is opinionated and you’ll be able to get the best out of it when you take advantage of “the Rails Way” of development or, in other words, when your opinions match those of Rails. If the core Rails functionalities don’t quite cut it for your project, you can still decide to use other open source plugins (or write them yourself) in order to allow Rails to behave in manner that’s closer to one of your specific needs.

Database Driven Rails assumes that each Web application is going to store data within a database. It is a reasonable assumption for all but the most trivial of applications. More importantly, Rails uses an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) Ruby library called ActiveRecord, that follows the Active Record design pattern as defined by Martin Fowler in his popular book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (AddisonWesley 2002). ActiveRecord greatly simplifies CRUD, the four basic functions of persistent storage — create, read, update, and delete — enabling you to favor Ruby code over SQL queries (most of the time).

Org), the equivalent of SourceForge or CodePlex for Ruby. The most popular download is, surprise-surprise, a one-click installer for installing Ruby on Windows. As I write this, it has been downloaded about 3 million times. And the third most popular download is Instant Rails, a package that helps you to quickly get up and running with Rails on Windows (it’s had more than 700,000 downloads so far). Rails on Windows might very well be a silent majority. In other words, and to quote Michael Jackson: you are not alone.

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