Ruby On Rails For Dummies

Ruby, a simple object-oriented programming language, and Rails, a Ruby add-on that facilitates Web page-database interaction, are today's hot new open source development platforms. The Rails Web site, 37signals.com, has 250,000 customers and 1 million page views a day. Using a conversational tone and lots of easy-to-follow examples, popular "For Dummies" author Barry Burd gently introduces programming novices to Web-database processing and development with "Ruby on Rails" (RoR). The book ranges from Ruby and RoR basics, installation, and writing simple Ruby programs to using RoR with Ajax and creating a blog, a shopping cart, and other real-world projects.