Ruby on Rails for PHP and Java Developers

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Ruby

   Pages 1-39

3. Rails Framework

   Pages 41-69

4. CRUD on Rails

   Pages 71-106

5. Ajax on Rails

   Pages 107-142

6. Creating PDF and Excel Reports

   Pages 143-172

7. XML On Rails

   Pages 173-189

8. PHP On Rails

   Pages 191-207

9. LDAP On Rails

   Pages 209-273

10. Web Services On Rails

    Pages 275-299

11. Ruby on Rails in Eclipse

    Pages 301-323

12. Rails Testing and Fixtures

    Pages 325-349

13. Rails in Production

    Pages 351-387

14. Back Matter

    Pages 389-394

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1 Ruby is an open source programming language that was released in 1995. th 2 Ruby is ranked 10 in the TIOBE Programming Community index . Ruby 3 on Rails is an open source web framework that was released in 2004. Ruby on Rails is being widely adopted because of its simplicity, 4 maintainability and development speed. Computerworld lists Ruby on Rails as the one of the top 5 technologies for 2007. Motivation for this Book Ruby is often compared with PHP, which is the most commonly used scripting language, and with Java, which is the most commonly used programming language. In the trends graph of TIOBE index you might notice that since the middle of 2006 Ruby shows an increase in usage 5 while PHP and Java show a decrease in usage. OReilly Radar has noted the trend towards an increased usage of Ruby on Rails. Statistics aside, Ruby on Rails has some advantages over PHP, which are discussed below. 1. Ruby on Rails is more object-oriented than PHP, thus providing all the inherent advantages of an object-oriented language such as simplicity, modularity, modifiability, extensibility, maintainability and re-usability. 2. Ruby on Rails is web framework whereas PHP is only a scripting language.

• Ajax
• Eclipse
• Java
• MySQL
• PHP
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• SQL
• XML
• configuration
• framework
• language
• scripting
• web applications
• web services