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This book is intended for programmers looking to build and deploy web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework. It assumes some familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The book focuses on the features and design choices of the Rails core framework, and is intended for those interested in using Rails rather than modifying or extending it. The first part of the book introduces Ruby, provides an overview of Rails, guides the reader through installation, and walks through a simple example application.

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Agile Rails 16

This book is intended for programmers looking to build and deploy web applications using the Ruby on Rails framework. It assumes some familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The book focuses on the features and design choices of the Rails core framework, and is intended for those interested in using Rails rather than modifying or extending it. The first part of the book introduces Ruby, provides an overview of Rails, guides the reader through installation, and walks through a simple example application.

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Who This Book Is For • xv

Who This Book Is For


This book is for programmers looking to build and deploy web-based applica-
tions. This includes application programmers who are new to Rails (and
perhaps even new to Ruby) as well as those who are familiar with the basics
but want a more in-depth understanding of Rails.

We presume some familiarity with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and
JavaScript—in other words, the ability to view source on web pages. You
needn’t be an expert on these subjects; the most you’ll be expected to do is
copy and paste material from the book, all of which can be downloaded.

The focus of this book is on the features and choices made by the Rails core
team. More specifically, this book is for users of the Rails framework—people
who tend to be more concerned about what Rails does, as opposed to how it
does it or how to change Rails to suit their needs. Examples of topics not
covered in this book include the following:

• Introduced in Rails 4, Turbolinks is a way to load pages more quickly by


just loading markup.3 If you want to know more about how Rails makes
your pages load faster, follow that link. But should you instead be content
with the knowledge that Rails makes pages load fast and not need to know
more, that’s OK too.

• Rails itself is highly hackable and extensible, but this book doesn’t cover
the concept of how to create your own Rails engine.4 If that topic is of
interest to you, we highly recommend Crafting Rails 4 Applications [Val13]
as a follow-on to this book.

• The Rails team has chosen not to include plenty of features—such as user
authentication—in the Rails framework itself. That doesn’t mean that
these features aren’t important, but it generally does mean that no single
solution is the obvious default for Rails users.

How to Read This Book


The first part of this book makes sure you’re ready. By the time you’re done
with it, you’ll have been introduced to Ruby (the language), you’ll have been
exposed to an overview of Rails, you’ll have Ruby and Rails installed, and
you’ll have verified the installation with a simple example.

3. https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks/blob/master/README.md
4. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html

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