| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Getting Started | p. 1 |
| Joining the Rails Community | p. 2 |
| Finding Documentation | p. 4 |
| Installing MySQL | p. 5 |
| Installing PostgreSQL | p. 8 |
| Installing Rails | p. 10 |
| Fixing Ruby and Installing Rails on OS X 10.4 Tiger | p. 12 |
| Running Rails in OS X with Locomotive | p. 14 |
| Running Rails in Windows with Instant Rails | p. 16 |
| Updating Rails with RubyGems | p. 18 |
| Getting Your Rails Project into Subversion | p. 19 |
| Rails Development | p. 23 |
| Creating a Rails Project | p. 23 |
| Jump-Starting Development with Scaffolding | p. 26 |
| Speeding Up Rails Development with Mongrel | p. 28 |
| Enhancing Windows Development with Cygwin | p. 31 |
| Understanding Pluralization Patterns in Rails | p. 32 |
| Developing Rails in OS X with TextMate | p. 36 |
| Cross-Platform Developing with RadRails | p. 37 |
| Installing and Running Edge Rails | p. 38 |
| Setting Up Passwordless Authentication with SSH | p. 41 |
| Generating RDoc for Your Rails Application | p. 42 |
| Creating Full-Featured CRUD Applications with Streamlined | p. 45 |
| Active Record | p. 49 |
| Setting Up a Relational Database to Use with Rails | p. 50 |
| Programmatically Defining Database Schema | p. 54 |
| Developing Your Database with Migrations | p. 56 |
| Modeling a Database with Active Record | p. 60 |
| Inspecting Model Relationships from the Rails Console | p. 63 |
| Accessing Your Data via Active Record | p. 66 |
| Retrieving Records with find | p. 68 |
| Iterating Over an Active Record Result Set | p. 71 |
| Retrieving Data Efficiently with Eager Loading | p. 74 |
| Updating an Active Record Object | p. 77 |
| Enforcing Data Integrity with Active Record Validations | p. 81 |
| Executing Custom Queries with find_by_sql | p. 84 |
| Protecting Against Race Conditions with Transactions | p. 88 |
| Adding Sort Capabilities to a Model with acts_as_list | p. 92 |
| Performing a Task Whenever a Model Object Is Created | p. 97 |
| Modeling a Threaded Forum with acts_as_nested_set | p. 100 |
| Creating a Directory of Nested Topics with acts_as_tree | p. 104 |
| Avoiding Race Conditions with Optimistic Locking | p. 107 |
| Handling Tables with Legacy Naming Conventions | p. 109 |
| Automating Record Timestamping | p. 111 |
| Factoring Out Common Relationships with Polymorphic Associations | p. 112 |
| Mixing Join Models and Polymorphism for Flexible Data Modeling | p. 115 |
| Action Controller | p. 121 |
| Accessing Form Data from a Controller | p. 122 |
| Changing an Application's Default Page | p. 125 |
| Clarifying Your Code with Named Routes | p. 126 |
| Configuring Customized Routing Behavior | p. 127 |
| Displaying Alert Messages with Flash | p. 129 |
| Extending the Life of a Flash Message | p. 131 |
| Following Actions with Redirects | p. 133 |
| Generating URLs Dynamically | p. 134 |
| Inspecting Requests with Filters | p. 135 |
| Logging with Filters | p. 137 |
| Rendering Actions | p. 140 |
| Restricting Access to Controller Methods | p. 141 |
| Sending Files or Data Streams to the Browser | p. 142 |
| Storing Session Information in a Database | p. 144 |
| Tracking Information with Sessions | p. 146 |
| Using Filters for Authentication | p. 149 |
| Action View | p. 155 |
| Simplifying Templates with View Helpers | p. 156 |
| Displaying Large Datasets with Pagination | p. 158 |
| Creating a Sticky Select List | p. 161 |
| Editing Many-to-Many Relationships with Multiselect Lists | p. 163 |
| Factoring Out Common Display Code with Layouts | p. 166 |
| Defining a Default Application Layout | p. 169 |
| Generating XML with Builder Templates | p. 170 |
| Generating RSS Feeds from Active Record Data | p. 172 |
| Reusing Page Elements with Partials | p. 174 |
| Processing Dynamically Created Input Fields | p. 177 |
| Customizing the Behavior of Standard Helpers | p. 181 |
| Creating a Web Form with Form Helpers | p. 183 |
| Formatting Dates, Times, and Currencies | p. 187 |
| Personalizing User Profiles with Gravatars | p. 190 |
| Avoiding Harmful Code in Views with Liquid Templates | p. 191 |
| Globalizing Your Rails Application | p. 195 |
| Restful Development | p. 201 |
| Creating Nested Resources | p. 204 |
| Supporting Alternative Data Formats by MIME Type | p. 208 |
| Modeling Relationships Restfully with Join Models | p. 210 |
| Moving Beyond Simple CRUD with Restful Resources | p. 213 |
| Consuming Complex Nested Rest Resources | p. 217 |
| Developing Your Rails Applications Restfully | p. 220 |
| Rails Application Testing | p. 225 |
| Centralizing the Creation of Objects Common to Test Cases | p. 226 |
| Creating Fixtures for Many-to-Many Associations | p. 227 |
| Importing Test Data with CSV Fixtures | p. 229 |
| Including Dynamic Data in Fixtures with ERb | p. 232 |
| Initializing a Test Database | p. 233 |
| Interactively Testing Controllers from the Rails Console | p. 235 |
| Interpreting the Output of Test::Unit | p. 237 |
| Loading Test Data with YAML Fixtures | p. 238 |
| Monitoring Test Coverage with rake stats | p. 240 |
| Running Tests with Rake | p. 241 |
| Speeding Up Tests with Transactional Fixtures | p. 242 |
| Testing Across Controllers with Integration Tests | p. 244 |
| Testing Controllers with Functional Tests | p. 247 |
| Examining the Contents of Cookie | p. 250 |
| Testing Custom and Named Routes | p. 253 |
| Testing HTTP Requests with Response-Related Assertions | p. 255 |
| Testing a Model with Unit Tests | p. 256 |
| Unit Testing Model Validations | p. 259 |
| Verifying DOM Structure with Tag-Related Assertions | p. 261 |
| Writing Custom Assertions | p. 264 |
| Testing File Upload | p. 265 |
| Modifying the Default Behavior of a Class for Testing by Using Mocks | p. 269 |
| Improving Feedback by Running Tests Continuously | p. 271 |
| Analyzing Code Coverage with Rcov | p. 272 |
| JavaScript and Ajax | p. 277 |
| Adding DOM Elements to a Page | p. 278 |
| Creating a Custom Report with Drag and Drop | p. 281 |
| Dynamically Adding Items to a Select List | p. 286 |
| Monitoring the Content Length of a Textarea | p. 288 |
| Updating Page Elements with RJS Templates | p. 292 |
| Inserting JavaScript into Templates | p. 295 |
| Letting a User Reorder a List | p. 298 |
| Autocompleting a Text Field | p. 302 |
| Searching for and Highlighting Text Dynamically | p. 304 |
| Enhancing the User Interface with Visual Effects | p. 308 |
| Implementing a Live Search | p. 311 |
| Editing Fields in Place | p. 315 |
| Creatingan Ajax Progress Indicator | p. 317 |
| Action Mailer | p. 321 |
| Configuring Rails to Send Email | p. 322 |
| Creating a Custom Mailer Class with the Mailer Generator | p. 323 |
| Formatting Email Messages Using Templates | p. 325 |
| Attaching Files to Email Messages | p. 326 |
| Sending Email from a Rails Application | p. 327 |
| Receiving Email with Action Mailer | p. 328 |
| Debugging Rails Applications | p. 333 |
| Exploring Rails from the Console | p. 334 |
| Fixing Bugs at the Source with Ruby -cw | p. 336 |
| Debugging Your Application in Real Time with the breakpointer | p. 338 |
| Logging with the Built-in Rails Logger Class | p. 342 |
| Writing Debugging Information to a File | p. 344 |
| Emailing Application Exceptions | p. 346 |
| Outputting Environment Information in Views | p. 350 |
| Displaying Object Contents with Exceptions | p. 352 |
| Filtering Development Logs in Real Time | p. 353 |
| Debugging HTTP Communication with Firefox Extensions | p. 355 |
| Debugging Your JavaScript in Real Time with the JavaScript Shell | p. 356 |
| Debugging Your Code Interactively with ruby-debug | p. 360 |
| Security | p. 365 |
| Hardening Your Systems with Strong Passwords | p. 365 |
| Protecting Queries from SQL Injection | p. 368 |
| Guarding Against Cross-Site Scripting Attacks | p. 369 |
| Restricting Access to Public Methods or Actions | p. 371 |
| Securing Your Server by Closing Unnecessary Ports | p. 373 |
| Performance | p. 377 |
| Measuring Web Server Performance with Httperf | p. 378 |
| Benchmarking Portions of Your Application Code | p. 381 |
| Improving Performance by Caching Static Pages | p. 382 |
| Expiring Cached Pages | p. 385 |
| Mixing Static and Dynamic Content with Fragment Caching | p. 388 |
| Filtering Cached Pages with Action Caching | p. 391 |
| Speeding Up Data Access Times with memcached | p. 392 |
| Increasing Performance by Caching Post-Processed Content | p. 395 |
| Hosting and Deployment | p. 399 |
| Hosting Rails Using Apache 1.3 and mod_fastcgi | p. 400 |
| Managing Multiple Mongrel Processes with mongrel_cluster | p. 402 |
| Hosting Rails with Apache 2.2, mod_proxy_balancer, and Mongrel | p. 405 |
| Deploying Rails with Pound in Front of Mongrel, Lighttpd, and Apache | p. 409 |
| Customizing Pound's Logging with cronolog | p. 413 |
| Configuring Pound with SSL Support | p. 416 |
| Simple Load Balancing with Pen | p. 418 |
| Deploying Your Rails Project with Capistrano | p. 419 |
| Deploying Your Application to Multiple Environments with Capistrano | p. 423 |
| Deploying with Capistrano When You Can't Access Subversion | p. 425 |
| Deploying with Capistrano and mongrel_cluster | p. 427 |
| Disabling Your Web Site During Maintenance | p. 429 |
| Writing Custom Capistrano Tasks | p. 432 |
| Cleaning Up Residual Session Records | p. 436 |
| Extending Rails with Plug-ins | p. 439 |
| Finding Third-Party Plug-ins | p. 440 |
| Installing Plug-ins | p. 441 |
| Manipulating Record Versions with acts_as_versioned | p. 443 |
| Building Authentication with acts_as_authenticated | p. 446 |
| Simplifying Folksonomy with the acts_as_taggable | p. 450 |
| Extending Active Record with acts_as | p. 455 |
| Adding View Helpers to Rails as Plug-ins | p. 460 |
| Uploading Files with file_column | p. 462 |
| Uploading Files with acts_as_attachment | p. 465 |
| Disabling Records Instead of Deleting Them with acts_as_paranoid | p. 469 |
| Adding More Elaborate Authentication Using the Login Engine | p. 471 |
| Graphics | p. 475 |
| Installing RMagick for Image Processing | p. 475 |
| Uploading Images to a Database | p. 480 |
| Serving Images Directly from a Database | p. 484 |
| Creating Resized Thumbnails with RMagick | p. 485 |
| Generating PDF Documents | p. 488 |
| Visually Displaying Data with Gruff | p. 490 |
| Creating Small, Informative Graphs with Sparklines | p. 493 |
| Migrating to Rails 1.2 | p. 497 |
| Index | p. 501 |
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