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Rails Cookbook (Cookbooks (OReilly))

ISBN: 0596527314
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2007
Pages: 250

Authors: Rob Orsini

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• Rails Cookbook
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Getting Started
• Section 1.0. Introduction
• Recipe 1.1. Joining the Rails Community
• Recipe 1.2. Finding Documentation
• Recipe 1.3. Installing MySQL
• Recipe 1.4. Installing PostgreSQL
• Recipe 1.5. Installing Rails
• Recipe 1.6. Fixing Ruby and Installing Rails on OS X 10.4 Tiger
• Recipe 1.7. Running Rails in OS X with Locomotive
• Recipe 1.8. Running Rails in Windows with Instant Rails
• Recipe 1.9. Updating Rails with RubyGems
• Recipe 1.10. Getting Your Rails Project into Subversion
• Chapter 2. Rails Development
• Section 2.0. Introduction
• Recipe 2.1. Creating a Rails Project
• Recipe 2.2. Jump-Starting Development with Scaffolding
• Recipe 2.3. Speeding Up Rails Development with Mongrel
• Recipe 2.4. Enhancing Windows Development with Cygwin
• Recipe 2.5. Understanding Pluralization Patterns in Rails
• Recipe 2.6. Developing Rails in OS X with TextMate
• Recipe 2.7. Cross-Platform Developing with RadRails
• Recipe 2.8. Installing and Running Edge Rails
• Recipe 2.9. Setting Up Passwordless Authentication with SSH
• Recipe 2.10. Generating RDoc for Your Rails Application
• Recipe 2.11. Creating Full-Featured CRUD Applications with Streamlined
• Chapter 3. Active Record
• Section 3.0. Introduction
• Recipe 3.1. Setting Up a Relational Database to Use with Rails
• Recipe 3.2. Programmatically Defining Database Schema
• Recipe 3.3. Developing Your Database with Migrations
• Recipe 3.4. Modeling a Database with Active Record
• Recipe 3.5. Inspecting Model Relationships from the Rails Console
• Recipe 3.6. Accessing Your Data via Active Record
• Recipe 3.7. Retrieving Records with find
• Recipe 3.8. Iterating Over an Active Record Result Set
• Recipe 3.9. Retrieving Data Efficiently with Eager Loading
• Recipe 3.10. Updating an Active Record Object
• Recipe 3.11. Enforcing Data Integrity with Active Record Validations
• Recipe 3.12. Executing Custom Queries with find_by_sql
• Recipe 3.13. Protecting Against Race Conditions with Transactions
• Recipe 3.14. Adding Sort Capabilities to a Model with acts_as_list
• Recipe 3.15. Performing a Task Whenever a Model Object Is Created
• Recipe 3.16. Modeling a Threaded Forum with acts_as_nested_set
• Recipe 3.17. Creating a Directory of Nested Topics with acts_as_tree
• Recipe 3.18. Avoiding Race Conditions with Optimistic Locking
• Recipe 3.19. Handling Tables with Legacy Naming Conventions
• Recipe 3.20. Automating Record Timestamping
• Recipe 3.21. Factoring Out Common Relationships with Polymorphic Associations
• Recipe 3.22. Mixing Join Models and Polymorphism for Flexible Data Modeling
• Chapter 4. Action Controller
• Section 4.0. Introduction
• Recipe 4.1. Accessing Form Data from a Controller
• Recipe 4.2. Changing an Application s Default Page
• Recipe 4.3. Clarifying Your Code with Named Routes
• Recipe 4.4. Configuring Customized Routing Behavior
• Recipe 4.5. Displaying Alert Messages with Flash
• Recipe 4.6. Extending the Life of a Flash Message
• Recipe 4.7. Following Actions with Redirects
• Recipe 4.8. Generating URLs Dynamically
• Recipe 4.9. Inspecting Requests with Filters
• Recipe 4.10. Logging with Filters
• Recipe 4.11. Rendering Actions
• Recipe 4.12. Restricting Access to Controller Methods
• Recipe 4.13. Sending Files or Data Streams to the Browser
• Recipe 4.14. Storing Session Information in a Database
• Recipe 4.15. Tracking Information with Sessions
• Recipe 4.16. Using Filters for Authentication
• Chapter 5. Action View
• Section 5.0. Introduction
• Recipe 5.1. Simplifying Templates with View Helpers
• Recipe 5.2. Displaying Large Datasets with Pagination
• Recipe 5.3. Creating a Sticky Select List
• Recipe 5.4. Editing Many-to-Many Relationships with Multiselect Lists
• Recipe 5.5. Factoring Out Common Display Code with Layouts
• Recipe 5.6. Defining a Default Application Layout
• Recipe 5.7. Generating XML with Builder Templates
• Recipe 5.8. Generating RSS Feeds from Active Record Data
• Recipe 5.9. Reusing Page Elements with Partials
• Recipe 5.10. Processing Dynamically Created Input Fields
• Recipe 5.11. Customizing the Behavior of Standard Helpers
• Recipe 5.12. Creating a Web Form with Form Helpers
• Recipe 5.13. Formatting Dates, Times, and Currencies
• Recipe 5.14. Personalizing User Profiles with Gravatars
• Recipe 5.15. Avoiding Harmful Code in Views with Liquid Templates
• Recipe 5.16. Globalizing Your Rails Application
• Chapter 6. RESTful Development
• Section 6.0. Introduction
• Recipe 6.1. Creating Nested Resources
• Recipe 6.2. Supporting Alternative Data Formats by MIME Type
• Recipe 6.3. Modeling Relationships RESTfully with Join Models
• Recipe 6.4. Moving Beyond Simple CRUD with RESTful Resources
• Recipe 6.5. Consuming Complex Nested REST Resources
• Recipe 6.6. Developing Your Rails Applications RESTfully
• Chapter 7. Rails Application Testing
• Section 7.0. Introduction
• Recipe 7.1. Centralizing the Creation of Objects Common to Test Cases
• Recipe 7.2. Creating Fixtures for Many-to-Many Associations
• Recipe 7.3. Importing Test Data with CSV Fixtures
• Recipe 7.4. Including Dynamic Data in Fixtures with ERb
• Recipe 7.5. Initializing a Test Database
• Recipe 7.6. Interactively Testing Controllers from the Rails Console
• Recipe 7.7. Interpreting the Output of Test::Unit
• Recipe 7.8. Loading Test Data with YAML Fixtures
• Recipe 7.9. Monitoring Test Coverage with rake stats
• Recipe 7.10. Running Tests with Rake
• Recipe 7.11. Speeding Up Tests with Transactional Fixtures
• Recipe 7.12. Testing Across Controllers with Integration Tests
• Recipe 7.13. Testing Controllers with Functional Tests
• Recipe 7.14. Examining the Contents of Cookie
• Recipe 7.15. Testing Custom and Named Routes
• Recipe 7.16. Testing HTTP Requests with Response-Related Assertions
• Recipe 7.17. Testing a Model with Unit Tests
• Recipe 7.18. Unit Testing Model Validations
• Recipe 7.19. Verifying DOM Structure with Tag-Related Assertions
• Recipe 7.20. Writing Custom Assertions
• Recipe 7.21. Testing File Upload
• Recipe 7.22. Modifying the Default Behavior of a Class for Testing by Using Mocks
• Recipe 7.23. Improving Feedback by Running Tests Continuously
• Recipe 7.24. Analyzing Code Coverage with Rcov
• Chapter 8. JavaScript and Ajax
• Section 8.0. Introduction
• Recipe 8.1. Adding DOM Elements to a Page
• Recipe 8.2. Creating a Custom Report with Drag and Drop
• Recipe 8.3. Dynamically Adding Items to a Select List
• Recipe 8.4. Monitoring the Content Length of a Textarea
• Recipe 8.5. Updating Page Elements with RJS Templates
• Recipe 8.6. Inserting JavaScript into Templates
• Recipe 8.7. Letting a User Reorder a List
• Recipe 8.8. Autocompleting a Text Field
• Recipe 8.9. Searching for and Highlighting Text Dynamically
• Recipe 8.10. Enhancing the User Interface with Visual Effects
• Recipe 8.11. Implementing a Live Search
• Recipe 8.12. Editing Fields in Place
• Recipe 8.13. Creating an Ajax Progress Indicator
• Chapter 9. Action Mailer
• Section 9.0. Introduction
• Recipe 9.1. Configuring Rails to Send Email
• Recipe 9.2. Creating a Custom Mailer Class with the Mailer Generator
• Recipe 9.3. Formatting Email Messages Using Templates
• Recipe 9.4. Attaching Files to Email Messages
• Recipe 9.5. Sending Email from a Rails Application
• Recipe 9.6. Receiving Email with Action Mailer
• Chapter 10. Debugging Rails Applications
• Section 10.0. Introduction
• Recipe 10.1. Exploring Rails from the Console
• Recipe 10.2. Fixing Bugs at the Source with Ruby -cw
• Recipe 10.3. Debugging Your Application in Real Time with the breakpointer
• Recipe 10.4. Logging with the Built-in Rails Logger Class
• Recipe 10.5. Writing Debugging Information to a File
• Recipe 10.6. Emailing Application Exceptions
• Recipe 10.7. Outputting Environment Information in Views
• Recipe 10.8. Displaying Object Contents with Exceptions
• Recipe 10.9. Filtering Development Logs in Real Time
• Recipe 10.10. Debugging HTTP Communication with Firefox Extensions
• Recipe 10.11. Debugging Your JavaScript in Real Time with the JavaScript Shell
• Recipe 10.12. Debugging Your Code Interactively with ruby-debug
• Chapter 11. Security
• Section 11.0. Introduction
• Recipe 11.1. Hardening Your Systems with Strong Passwords
• Recipe 11.2. Protecting Queries from SQL Injection
• Recipe 11.3. Guarding Against Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
• Recipe 11.4. Restricting Access to Public Methods or Actions
• Recipe 11.5. Securing Your Server by Closing Unnecessary Ports
• Chapter 12. Performance
• Section 12.0. Introduction
• Recipe 12.1. Measuring Web Server Performance with Httperf
• Recipe 12.2. Benchmarking Portions of Your Application Code
• Recipe 12.3. Improving Performance by Caching Static Pages
• Recipe 12.4. Expiring Cached Pages
• Recipe 12.5. Mixing Static and Dynamic Content with Fragment Caching
• Recipe 12.6. Filtering Cached Pages with Action Caching
• Recipe 12.7. Speeding Up Data Access Times with memcached
• Recipe 12.8. Increasing Performance by Caching Post-Processed Content
• Chapter 13. Hosting and Deployment
• Section 13.0. Introduction
• Recipe 13.1. Hosting Rails Using Apache 1.3 and mod_fastcgi
• Recipe 13.2. Managing Multiple Mongrel Processes with mongrel_cluster
• Recipe 13.3. Hosting Rails with Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, and Mongrel
• Recipe 13.4. Deploying Rails with Pound in Front of Mongrel, Lighttpd, and Apache
• Recipe 13.5. Customizing Pound s Logging with cronolog
• Recipe 13.6. Configuring Pound with SSL Support
• Recipe 13.7. Simple Load Balancing with Pen
• Recipe 13.8. Deploying Your Rails Project with Capistrano
• Recipe 13.9. Deploying Your Application to Multiple Environments with Capistrano
• Recipe 13.10. Deploying with Capistrano When You Can t Access Subversion
• Recipe 13.11. Deploying with Capistrano and mongrel_cluster
• Recipe 13.12. Disabling Your Web Site During Maintenance
• Recipe 13.13. Writing Custom Capistrano Tasks
• Recipe 13.14. Cleaning Up Residual Session Records
• Chapter 14. Extending Rails with Plug-ins
• Section 14.0. Introduction
• Recipe 14.1. Finding Third-Party Plug-ins
• Recipe 14.2. Installing Plug-ins
• Recipe 14.3. Manipulating Record Versions with acts_as_versioned
• Recipe 14.4. Building Authentication with acts_as_authenticated
• Recipe 14.5. Simplifying Folksonomy with the acts_as_taggable
• Recipe 14.6. Extending Active Record with acts_as
• Recipe 14.7. Adding View Helpers to Rails as Plug-ins
• Recipe 14.8. Uploading Files with file_column
• Recipe 14.9. Uploading Files with acts_as_attachment
• Recipe 14.10. Disabling Records Instead of Deleting Them with acts_as_paranoid
• Recipe 14.11. Adding More Elaborate Authentication Using the Login Engine
• Chapter 15. Graphics
• Section 15.0. Introduction
• Recipe 15.1. Installing RMagick for Image Processing
• Recipe 15.2. Uploading Images to a Database
• Recipe 15.3. Serving Images Directly from a Database
• Recipe 15.4. Creating Resized Thumbnails with RMagick
• Recipe 15.5. Generating PDF Documents
• Recipe 15.6. Visually Displaying Data with Gruff
• Recipe 15.7. Creating Small, Informative Graphs with Sparklines
• Appendix A. Migrating to Rails 1.2
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