Rails for Java Developers - Softcover

Halloway, Stuart; Gehtland, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097761669X ISBN 13: 9780977616695

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2007

Synopsis

Many Java developers are now looking at Ruby, and the Ruby on Rails web framework. If you are one of them, this book is your guide. Written by experienced developers who love both Java and Ruby, this book will show you, via detailed comparisons and commentary, how to translate your hard-earned Java knowledge and skills into the world of Ruby and Rails. If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use this background to quickly learn Ruby and Rails. But Ruby looks a lot different from Java, and some of those differences support powerful abstractions that Java lacks. We'll be your guides to this new, but not strange, territory. In each chapter, we build a series of parallel examples to demonstrate some facet of web development. Because the Rails examples sit next to Java examples, you can start this book in the middle, or anywhere else you want. You can use the Java version of the code, plus the analysis, to quickly grok what the Rails version is doing. We have carefully cross-referenced and indexed the book to facilitate jumping around as you need to. Thanks to your background in Java, this one short book can cover a half-dozen books' worth of ideas: Programming Ruby, Building MVC (Model/View/Controller) Applications, Unit and Functional Testing, Security, Project Automation, Configuration, and Web Services.

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About the Author

Stuart Dabbs Halloway is the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor (http://www.develop.com). Stuart is the author of Component Development for the Java Platform, part of the DevelopMentor book series and due to be published by Addison-Wesley in December 2001. From January 2000 to July 2001, Stuart wrote a monthly Tech Tips column for the Java Developer Connection. He has also written for JavaPro magazine. Stuart regularly speaks at industry events such as JavaOne. Prior to DevelopMentor, Stuart worked as a lead engineer and project manager, shipping successful projects for Prentice Hall, National Geographic, and Duke University's Humanities Computing Facility. He received his B.S. and M.P.P. from Duke University in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Working as a professional programmer, instructor, speaker and pundit since 1992, Justin Gehtland has developed real-world applications using VB, COM, .NET, Java, Perl and a slew of obscure technologies since relegated to the trash heap of technical history. His focus has historically been on "connected" applications, which of course has led him down the COM+, ASP/ASP.NET and JSP roads. Justin is the co-author of Effective Visual Basic (Addison Wesley, 2001) and Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET (Addison Wesley, 2003). He is currently the regular Agility columnist on The Server Side .NET, and works as a consultant through his company Relevance, LLC in addition to teaching for DevelopMentor.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 097761669X
• ISBN 13: 9780977616695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300