Practical Rails Plugins

By David Berube and Nick Plante

The Rails framework empowers developers with unprecedented levels of productivity by embracing principles such as convention over configuration and don t repeat yourself . This paradigm is even apparent at the community level, where developers regularly share their custom framework extensions by way of Rails plugins feature. Plugins offer a way for developers to extend the core Rails framework with their own custom features, allowing for rapid integration of features such as authentication, user ratings, and search. Practical Rails Plugins shows you how to capitalize upon the wide variety of plugins at your disposal by guiding you through their integration into a number of interesting projects. You ll learn how to rapidly augment projects involving asynchronous video transcoding, geocoding and mapping, content management, community ratings, and PDF generation. You ll also learn how to create and distribute your own plugins. The ultimate guide to building powerful web sites faster using Rails plugins Demonstrates how to use popular plugins within a number of practical (and fully functional) projects and mini applications Shows you how to create and distribute your own plugins "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008SMAL9W
• ISBN13: 9781590599938
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Apress L. P.
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Really?!?!

I'm very surprised this book hasn't been reviewed, and while I've used it more as a reference - meaning that I didn't read it linearly - it is at once a book that I use more frequently than the others. If I'm mocking up an idea, or just trying to get something done, usually I'll either grab this book off the shelf and see if there is a quick solution, or fall back to one of the Rails Recipe books from Pragmatic Programmers. Rails plug-ins come, and Rails plug-ins go, but in peeking real quick, most all of the presented plug-ins are still good choices right now (January '09) ...