作者：David Griffiths
出版日期：January 2, 2009
出版社：O'Reilly
页数：462
ISBN：ISBN-10: 0596515774 ISBN-13: 978-0596515775
文件格式：PDF

Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Railstakes your programming — and productivity — to the max. You’ll learneverything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to buildingcustomized interactive web apps using Rails’ rich set of tools and theMVC framework.
By the time you’re finished, you’ll have learned more than justanother web framework. You’ll master database interactions, integrationwith Ajax and XML, rich content, and even dynamic graphing of your data— all in a fraction of the time it takes to build the same apps withJava, PHP, ASP.NET, or Perl. You’ll even get comfortable and familiarwith Ruby, the language that underpins Rails. But you’ll do it in thecontext of web programming, and not through boring exercises such as“Hello, World!”
Your time is way too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts.Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory tocraft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First Rails uses a visually rich format designed to take advantage of the way your brain really works.
About the Author
David Griffiths began programming at age 12, after being inspired by adocumentary on the work of Seymour Papert. At age 15 he wrote animplementation of Papert’s computer language LOGO. After studying PureMathematics at University, he began writing code for computers andmagazine articles for humans and he is currently an agile coach withExoftware in the UK, helping people to create simpler, more valuablesoftware. He spends his free time traveling and time with his lovelywife, Dawn.