Rails is one of the leading frameworks for developing the new generation of Web 2.0 applications using the increasingly popular Ruby scripting language. This new Cookbook title is for all web developers, regardless of experience, who want learn about the fastest growing web application framework on the market.

Rails Cookbook is not an introductory tutorial, but a problem-solving book that provides coding solutions for a wide range of tasks. For every problem addressed in the book, you'll find a worked-out solution or "recipe"-- a short, focused piece of code that you can insert directly into your applications. Topics covered in the book include developing scalable web applications, test-driven development, working with active record, and deploying Rails applications. A discussion on each solution is included, so that you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations. This ultimate Rails code sourcebook will save you hundreds of hours.