The advantage of using Rails is its agility; it makes developing your web applications easy and fast. The disadvantage is that it can leave holes in your security if you are not aware of common vulnerabilities. It’s a nerve-wracking and unfortunate fact that there are plenty of malicious people lurking on the Web. As a Rails developer, it is essential that you understand how to assess risk and protect your data and your users.

Security on Rails uses established security principles to teach you how to write more secure software, defend your applications from common threats, and encrypt your data. We’ll give you an example of a hacking exploit, and explore how to fix the weaknesses in an application.

The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications using less code and less effort. Now programmers can get the job done right and still leave work on time. The book has been updated to take advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features. The sample application uses migrations, Ajax, features a REST interface, and illustrates new Rails features. There are new chapters on migrations, active support, active record, and action controller (including the new resources-based routing).

Manch Entwickler dürfte Tapestry oder Struts als Model-View-Controller-Architektur zur Entwicklung von Webanwendungen bekannt sein – Ruby on Rails ist jedoch (noch) ein eher unbekanntes Team, doch das Autorenduo David Thomas und David Heinemeier Hansson hat mit Agile Webentwicklung mit Rails nicht nur ein umfassendes und motivierendes Buch zu Ruby samt Rails geschrieben, sondern damit gleichzeitig einen Ausblick auf die Zukunft der Entwicklung, Verbreitung von Webanwendungen vorgelegt, der im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes vieles vereinfacht.

Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written? From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, “Rails Recipes” will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have.

Der Leitfaden der Pragmatischen Programmierer.

Dies ist die deutsche Übersetzung des Programming Ruby – The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide (erste Fassung).

Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. These run on heterogeneous operating systems and hardware, they use databases and messaging systems from various vendors, and they were written in different programming languages. And it’s your job to make them work together. This book shows you how the power and elegance of Ruby can greatly simplify your job.

Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist… A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you’d need to configure the same application in other frameworks. With this book, you’ll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables.

Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, “Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide”.