Topics Covered

• Chapter 1: An Overview Of Ruby on Rails
  1. What is Ruby on Rails?
  2. Downloading Rails
  3. A Rails Application
  4. Structure of a Rails Application
  5. Building the Controller
  6. Views
  7. A Quick Review
  8. Rails Conventions
  9. Embedded Ruby
  10. Extended Time Functions
  11. The render Method
  12. The link_to Method
  13. One Last Thought
• Chapter 2: Fill in Forms
  1. Introduction
  2. Creating a Form
  3. Submitting a Form
  4. Other Form Elements - Checkboxes
  5. Radio Buttons
  6. Rails Helper Methods
  7. Loading the Form
  8. Submitting the Form
  9. Perspective
• Chapter 3: Databases and Rails
  1. Review of MVC
  2. Entities and Relationships
  3. Databases and Models
  4. database.yml
  5. Adding the Model
  6. Migrations
  7. The Index Page
  8. The Ruby Console
  9. Listing the Rows of a Database Table
  10. Scaffolding
• Chapter 4: Validation Techniques
  1. Introduction
  2. form_for
  3. Data Validation
  4. Required Fields
  5. Validating Numerical Fields
  6. Validating Uniqueness
  7. Validating Lengths
  8. Validating Formats
  9. Writing Your Own Validation Methods
  10. The errors Object
  11. Validation Summary
• Chapter 5: Style
  1. Adding Style to Your Application
  2. The Actions and the Templates
  3. Displaying the New Templates
  4. Higher Level Templates
  5. Adding Style
  6. Cascading Style Sheets
  7. More Style
• Chapter 6: Users
  1. Introduction
  2. Maintaining State
  3. Preparing an Application for Sessions
  4. Registering Users
  5. Registration
  6. The flash Hash
  7. Validation of the Form
  8. Logging In
  9. Logging Out
  10. Protected Pages
  11. Filters
• Chapter 7: Putting it All Together
  1. Introduction
  2. The Business Application
  3. Database Terminology
  4. Linking Two Models
  5. Adding Tasks
  6. The Database Tables
  7. Displaying an Employee Task
  8. Deleting a Task
  9. Listing Both Employees and Tasks
  10. Migrations
  11. application_helpers.rb
  12. Editing a Record
  13. Summary
• Chapter 8: Testing the Application
  1. Introduction
  2. Test::Unit
  3. Testing Your Own Classes
  4. Testing in Rails – Unit Testing
  5. Testing Models
  6. Fixtures
  7. Testing Controllers
  8. test_helper.rb
  9. rake
  10. ntegration Testing