Preface; Who This Book Is F∨ Who This Book Is Not F∨ What You''ll Learn; Ruby and Rails Sty≤ Other Options; Rails Versions; If You Have Problems Making Examples Work; If You Like (or Don''t Like) This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Onli≠ How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Starting Up Ruby on Rails; 1.1 If You Run Windows, You''re Lucky; 1.2 Getting Started at the Command Li≠ 1.3 Starting Up Rails; 1.4 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 2: Rails on the Web; 2.1 Creating Your Own View; 2.2 What Are All Those Folders?; 2.3 Adding Some Data; 2.

4 How Hello World Works; 2.5 Adding Logic to the View; 2.6 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 3: Adding Web Sty≤ 3.1 I Want My CSS!; 3.2 Specifying Stylesheets; 3.3 Creating a Layout for a Controller; 3.4 Choosing a Layout from a Controller; 3.5 Sharing Template Data with the Layout; 3.

6 Setting a Default Pa≥ 3.7 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 4: Managing Data Flow: Controllers and Models; 4.1 Getting Started, Greeting Guests; 4.2 Application Flow; 4.3 Keeping Track: A Simple Guestbook; 4.4 Finding Data with ActiveRecord; 4.5 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 5: Accelerating Development with Scaffolding and REST; 5.1 A First Look at Scaffolding; 5.

2 REST and Controller Best Practices; 5.3 Examining a RESTful Controller; 5.4 Escaping the REST Prison; 5.5 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 6: Presenting Models with Forms; 6.1 More Than a Name on a Form; 6.2 Generating HTML Forms with Scaffolding; 6.3 Form as a Wrapper; 6.4 Creating Text Fields and Text Areas; 6.

5 Labels; 6.6 Creating Checkboxes; 6.7 Creating Radio Buttons; 6.8 Creating Selection Lists; 6.9 Dates and × 6.10 Creating Helper Methods; 6.11 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 7: Strengthening Models with Validation; 7.1 Without Validation; 7.

2 The Original Model; 7.3 The Power of Declarative Validation; 7.4 Managing Secrets; 7.5 A Place on the Calendar; 7.6 Beyond Simple Declarations; 7.7 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 8: Improving Forms; 8.1 Adding a Picture by Uploading a Fi≤ 8.2 Standardizing Your Look with Form Builders; 8.

3 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 9: Developing Model Relationships; 9.1 Connecting Awards to Students; 9.2 Connecting Students to Awards; 9.3 Nesting Awards in Students; 9.4 Many-to-Many: Connecting Students to Courses; 9.5 What''s Missing?; 9.6 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 10: Managing Databases with Migrations; 10.1 What Migrations Offer You; 10.

2 Migration Basics; 10.3 Inside Migrations; 10.4 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 11: Debugging; 11.1 Creating Your Own Debugging Messages; 11.2 Raising Exceptions; 11.3 Logging; 11.4 Working with Rails from the Conso≤ 11.5 The Ruby Debugger; 11.

6 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 12: Testing; 12.1 Test Mode; 12.2 Setting Up a Test Database with Fixtures; 12.3 Unit Testing; 12.4 Functional Testing; 12.5 Integration Testing; 12.6 Beyond the Basics; 12.7 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 13: Sessions and Cookies; 13.

1 Getting Into and Out of Cookies; 13.2 Storing Data Between Sessions; 13.3 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 14: Users and Authentication; 14.1 Installation; 14.2 Storing Identities; 14.3 Storing User Data; 14.4 Wiring OmniAuth into the Application; 14.5 Classifying Users; 14.

6 More Options; 14.7 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 15: Routing; 15.1 Creating Routes to Interpret URIs; 15.2 Generating URIs from Views and Controllers; 15.3 Infinite Possibilities; 15.4 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 16: From CSS to SASS; 16.1 Getting Started; 16.2 Sassy Sty≤ 16.

3 Making Everything Work Together; 16.4 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 17: Managing Assets and Bundles; 17.1 The Junk Drawer; 17.2 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 18: Sending Code to the Browser: JavaScript and CoffeeScript; 18.1 Sending JavaScript to the Browser; 18.2 Simplifying with CoffeeScript; 18.3 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 19: Mail in Rails; 19.1 Sending Mail Messages; 19.

2 Receiving Mail; 19.3 Test Your Knowled≥Chapter 20: Pushing Further into Rails; 20.1 Changing to Production Mode; 20.2 Deploying Is Much More Than Programming; 20.3 Joining the Rails Ecosystem;An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Ruby; How Ruby Works; How Rails Works; Getting Started with Classes and Objects; Comments; Variables, Methods, and Attributes; Logic and Conditionals;An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Relational Databases; Tables of Data; Databases, Tables, and Rails;An Incredibly Brief Guide to Regular Expressions; What Regular Expressions Do; Starting Small; The Simplest Expressions: Literal Strings; Character Classes; Escaping; Modifiers; Anchors; Sequences, Repetition, Groups, and Choices; Greed; More Possibilities;Glossary; Speaking in Rails;Colophon;.