Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers (Paperback)

David Black

  • 出版商: Manning
  • 出版日期: 2006-05-11
  • 售價: $1,600
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,520
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 532
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1932394699
  • ISBN-13: 9781932394696
  • 相關分類: Ruby
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“Closes the gap between Ruby as a language and Rails as a framework. The breadth of knowledge is astounding!”
—Benjamin S. Gorlick, Software Engineer and Developer

“Code examples are concise and useful. I highly recommend it.”
—Mark Eagle, Java Architect, MATRIX Resources, Inc

“A comprehensive tutorial on Ruby and on Rails”
—Bob Hutchison, CTO, Recursive Design Inc.

“I absolutely recommend it!”
—Andrew Oswald, Java Architect, Chariot Solutions

The word is out: with Ruby on Rails you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can’t tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the Ruby language.

Ruby for Rails helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You’ll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby’s elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you'll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it.

Newcomers to Ruby will find a Rails-oriented Ruby introduction that’s easy to read and that includes dynamic programming techniques, an exploration of Ruby objects, classes, and data structures, and many neat examples of Ruby and Rails code in action.

Ruby for Rails: the Ruby guide for Rails developers! 

 

Table of Contents

foreword xix
preface xxi
acknowledgments xxiii
about this book xxvi
about the cover illustration xxxii

Part 1 The Ruby/Rails landscape 1

1 How Ruby works 3
The mechanics of writing a Ruby program 4
Getting the preliminaries in place 5, A Ruby literacy bootstrap guide 5, A brief introduction to method calls and Ruby objects, Writing and saving a sample program 8, Feeding the program to Ruby 9, Keyboard and file input 11, One program, multiple files 14
Techniques of interpreter invocation 15
Command-line switches 16, A closer look at interactive Ruby interpretation with irb 20
Ruby extensions and programming libraries 21
Using standard extensions and libraries 21, Using C extensions 22, Writing extensions and libraries 23
Anatomy of the Ruby programming environment 24
The layout of the Ruby source code 24, Navigating the Ruby installation 25, Important standard Ruby tools and applications 27
Summary 31
2 How Rails works 33
Inside the Rails framework 34
A framework userseye view of application development 35, Introducing the MVC framework concept 36, Meet MVC in the (virtual) flesh 37
Analyzing Rails?implementation of MVC 38
A Rails application walk-through 41
Introducing R4RMusic, the music-store application 42, Modeling the first iteration of the music-store domain 43, Identifying and programming the actions 50, Designing the views 53, Connecting to the application 58
Tracing the lifecycle of a Rails run 59
Stage 1: server to dispatcher 61, Stage 2: dispatcher, to controller 62, Stage 3: performance of a controller action 62, Stage 4: the fulfillment of the view 65
Summary 65
3 Ruby-informed Rails development 67
A first crack at knowing what your code does 69
Seeing Rails as a domain-specific language 70, Writing program code with a configuration flavor 73, YAML and configuration thats actually programming 75
Starting to use Ruby to do more in your code 77
Adding functionality to a controller 79, Deploying the Rails helper files 80, Adding functionality to models 82
Accomplishing application-related skills and tasks 85
Converting legacy data to ActiveRecord 85, The irb-based Rails application console 89
Summary 90

Part 2 Ruby building blocks 93

4 Objects and variables 95
From things?to objects 96
Introducing object-oriented programming 97, I, object! 98, Modeling objects more closely: the behavior of a ticket 103
The innate behaviors of an object 108
Identifying objects uniquely with the object_id method 109, Querying an objects abilities with the respond_to? method 110, Sending messages to objects with the send method 111
Required, optional, and default-valued arguments 112
Required and optional arguments 112, Default values for arguments 113, Order of arguments 114
Local variables and variable assignment 115
Variable assignment in depth 117, Local variables and the things that look like them 119
Summary 120
5 Organizing objects with classes 121
Classes and instances 122
A first class 123, Instance variables and object state 126
Setter methods 130
The equal sign (=) in method names 131, ActiveRecord properties and other =-method applications 133
Attributes and the attr_* method family 136
Automating the creation of attribute handlers 137, Two (getter/setter) for one 138, Summary of attr_* methods 139
Class methods and the Class class 140
Classes are objects too! 140, When, and why, to write a class method 141, Class methods vs. instance methods, clarified 143, The Class class and Class.new 144
Constants up close 145
Basic usage of constants 145, Reassigning vs. modifying constants 146
Inheritance 148
Inheritance and Rails engineering 149, Nature vs. nurture in Ruby objects 151
Summary 153
6 Modules and program organization 154
Basics of module creation and use 155
A module encapsulating stack-like-ness?157, Mixing a module into a class 158, Leveraging the module further 160
Modules, classes, and method lookup 163
Illustrating the basics of method lookup 163, Defining the same method more than once 166, Going up the method search path with super 168
Class/module design and naming 170
Mix-ins and/or inheritance 171, Modular organization in Rails source and boilerplate code 173
Summary 176
7 The default object (self) and scope 177
Understanding self, the current/default object 179
Who gets to be self, and where 179, Self as default receiver of messages 184, Instance variables and self 186
Determining scope 188
Global scope and global variables 188, Local scope 191, Scope and resolution of constants 194
Deploying method access rules 197
Private methods 197, Private methods as ActionController access protection 199, Protected methods 201
Writing and using top-level methods 203
Defining a top-level method 203, Predefined (built-in) top-level methods 204
Summary 205
8 Control flow techniques 206
Conditional code execution 207
The if keyword and friends 208, Conditional modifiers 211, Case statements 211
Repeating actions with loops 215
Unconditional looping with the loop method 215, Conditional looping with the while and until keywords 216, Looping based on a list of values 218
Code blocks, iterators, and the yield keyword 219
The basics of yielding to a block 219, Performing multiple iterations 222, Using different code blocks 223, More about for 223
Error handling and exceptions 225
Raising and rescuing exceptions 225, Raising exceptions explicitly 227, Creating your own exception classes 228
Summary 230

Part 3 Built-in classes and modules 231

9 Built-in essentials 233
Rubys literal constructors 234
Recurrent syntactic sugar 236
Special treatment of += 237
Methods that change their receivers (or dont) 238
Receiver-changing basics 239, bang (!) methods 240, Specialized and extended receiver-changing in ActiveRecord objects 241
Built-in and custom to_* (conversion) methods 242
Writing your own to_* methods 243
Iterators reiterated 244
Boolean states, Boolean objects, and nil 245
True and false as states 246, true and false as objects 248, The special object nil 249
Comparing two objects 251
Equality tests 251, Comparisons and the Comparable module 252
Listing an objects methods 253
Generating filtered and selective method lists 254
Summary 255
10 Scalar objects 257
Working with strings 258
String basics 258, String operations 260, Comparing strings 265
Symbols and their uses 267
Key differences between symbols and strings 267, Rails-style method arguments, revisited 268
Numerical objects 270
Numerical classes 270, Performing arithmetic operations 271
Times and dates 272
Summary 275
11 Collections, containers, and enumerability 277
Arrays and hashes compared 278
Using arrays 279
Creating a new array 279, Inserting, retrieving, and removing array elements 280, Combining arrays with other arrays 283, Array transformations 285, Array iteration, filtering, and querying 286, Ruby lessons from ActiveRecord collections 289
Hashes 292
Creating a new hash 293, Inserting, retrieving, and removing hash pairs 294, Combining hashes with other hashes 296, Hash transformations 297, Hash iteration, filtering, and querying 298, Hashes in Ruby and Rails method calls 301
Collections central: the Enumerable module 303
Gaining enumerability through each 304, Strings as Enumerables 306
Sorting collections 307
Sorting and the Comparable module 309, Defining sort order in a block 310
Summary 311
12 Regular expressionsand regexp-basedstring operations 312
What are regular expressions? 313
A word to the regex-wise 314, A further word to everyone 314
Writing regular expressions 314
The regular expression literal constructor 315, Building a pattern 316
More on matching and MatchData 319
Capturing submatches with parentheses 319, Match success and failure 321
Further regular expression techniques 323
Quantifiers and greediness 323, Anchors and lookahead assertions 326, Modifiers 328, Converting strings and regular expressions to each other 329
Common methods that use regular expressions 331
String#scan 332, String#split 332, sub/sub! and gsub/gsub! 333, grep 334
Summary 335
13 Ruby dynamics 337
The position and role of singleton classes 338
Where the singleton methods live 339, Examining and modifying a singleton class directly 340, Singleton classes on the method lookup path 342, Class methods in (even more) depth 345
The eval family of methods 347
eval 347, instance_eval 349, The most useful eval: class_eval (a.k.a. module_eval) 349
Callable objects 351
Proc objects 351, Creating anonymous functions with the lambda keyword 355, Code blocks, revisited 356, Methods as objects 357
Callbacks and hooks 359
Intercepting unrecognized messages with method_missing 360, Trapping include operations with Module#included 361, Intercepting inheritance with Class#inherited 363, Module#const_missing 365
Overriding and adding to core functionality 365
A cautionary tale 366
Summary 367

Part 4 Rails through Ruby, Ruby throug Rails 369

14 (Re)modeling the R4RMusic application universe 371
Tracking the capabilities of an ActiveRecord model instance 372
An overview of model instance capabilities 373, Inherited and automatic ActiveRecord model behaviors 374, Semi-automatic behaviors via associations 378
Advancing the domain model 380
Abstracting and adding models (publisher and edition) 380, The instruments model and many-to-many relations 382, Modeling for use: customer and order 386
Summary 390
15 Programmatically enhancing ActiveRecord models 392
Soft vs. hard model enhancement 393
An example of model-enhancement contrast 394
Soft programmatic extension of models 396
Honing the Work model through soft enhancements 398, Modeling the customers business 399, Fleshing out the Composer 401, Ruby vs. SQL in the development of soft enhancements 401
Hard programmatic enhancement of model functionality 404
Prettification of string properties 404, Calculating a works period 409, The remaining business of the Customer 414
Extending model functionality with class methods 419
Soft and hard class methods 419
Summary 421
16 Enhancing the controllers and views 422
Defining helper methods for view templates 424
Organizing and accessing custom helper methods 425, The custom helper methods for R4RMusic 427
Coding and deploying partial view templates 429
Anatomy of a master template 429, Using partials in the welcome view template 430
Updating the main controller 436
The new face of the welcome action 436
Incorporating customer signup and login 438
The login and signup partial templates 438, Logging in and saving the session state 439, Gate-keeping the actions with before_filter 441, Implementing a signing-up facility 444, Scripting customer logout 445
Processing customer orders 446
The view_cart action and template 446, Viewing and buying an edition 448, Defining the add_to_cart action 449, Completing the order(s) 449
Personalizing the page via dynamic code 450
From rankings to favorites 450, The favorites feature in action 452
Summary 454
17 Techniques for exploring the Rails source code 455
Exploratory technique 1: panning for info 456
Sample info panning: belongs_to 457
Exploratory technique 2: shadowing Ruby 458
Choosing a starting point 458, Choose among forks in the road intelligently 459, On the trail of belongs_to 460, A transliteration of belongs_to 463
Exploratory technique 3: consulting the documentation 464
A roadmap of the online Rails API documentation 466
Summary 469
 
Appendix: Ruby and Rails installation and resources 471
index 477 1

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「Ruby for Rails」將Ruby語言和Rails框架之間的差距縮小到最小。這本書的知識廣度令人驚嘆!
- Benjamin S. Gorlick,軟體工程師和開發人員

程式碼範例簡潔實用,我強烈推薦這本書。
- Mark Eagle,Java架構師,MATRIX Resources, Inc

這是一本關於Ruby和Rails的全面教程。
- Bob Hutchison,CTO,Recursive Design Inc.

我絕對推薦這本書!
- Andrew Oswald,Java架構師,Chariot Solutions

消息已經傳出:使用Ruby on Rails,您可以輕鬆快速地建立強大的Web應用程式!就像Rails框架本身一樣,Rails應用程式是Ruby程式。這意味著除非您掌握Ruby語言,否則無法充分發揮Rails的全部威力。

「Ruby for Rails」幫助Rails開發人員掌握Ruby。每一章都深入介紹了Ruby知識,並展示了它與Rails的關聯。您將增強使用物件和類別的信心,並學習如何利用Ruby優雅、表達性的語法來提升Rails應用程式的功能。通過深入了解Rails本身的設計以及如何充分利用它,您將成為一名更優秀的Rails開發人員。

對於初學者來說,這本書提供了以Rails為導向的Ruby介紹,易於閱讀,包括動態編程技巧、Ruby物件、類別和資料結構的探索,以及許多實際運作的Ruby和Rails程式碼的精彩範例。

「Ruby for Rails」:Rails開發人員的Ruby指南!

目錄

前言
前言
致謝
關於本書
關於封面插圖

第1部分 Ruby/Rails的環境

第1章 Ruby的運作方式
撰寫Ruby程式的機制
準備工作
Ruby語言基礎指南
編寫並儲存範例程式
執行程式
鍵盤和檔案輸入
一個程式,多個檔案

解譯器調用技巧
命令列開關
深入研究使用irb進行互動式Ruby解譯

Ruby擴展和程式庫
使用標準擴展和程式庫
使用C擴展
撰寫擴展和程式庫

Ruby程式環境的結構
Ruby原始碼的佈局
導覽Ruby安裝
重要的標準Ruby工具和應用程式