Advanced Rails - Building Industrial-Strength Web Apps in Record Time

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Foundational Techniques Preface .ix What Is Metaprogramming? Ruby Foundations Metaprogramming Techniques Functional Program ...

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ix Preface 1 When I started working with Ruby and Rails in late 2004, there was almost no docu- mentation on the Rails framework ...

x | Preface I would recommend the following books as a prelude to this one: Programming Ruby,Second Edition, by Dave Thomas (Pr ...

Preface | xi Conventions Used in This Book The following typographical conventions are used in this book: Plain text Indicates m ...

xii | Preface We appreciate, but do not require, attribution. An attribution usually includes the title, author, publisher, and ...

Preface | xiii Acknowledgments No book is created without the help of many people. I owe a great debt of gratitude to the many w ...

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1 Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Foundational Techniques 1 Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. —Edsger W. Dijkstra Since its initia ...

2 | Chapter 1: Foundational Techniques Metaprogramming is used in many languages, but it is most popular in dynamic lan- guages ...

What Is Metaprogramming? | 3 languages like Ruby. Just as functional abstraction allows us to avoid duplicating code that is the ...

4 | Chapter 1: Foundational Techniques This concept is extremely useful in ActiveRecord. After creating your basic schema and mo ...