Rails is a new approach to the development of web-based application that allows developers to create full-featured, web-based applications using less code and less sophisticated businesses. NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION: This book has been updated to take advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features. Sample application uses migrations, Ajax, REST interface features, and illustrates new Rails features. There are new chapters on migrations, active support, active record, and action controller (including new resources-based routing). Rails is the source of a full-stack web framework, open that allows you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based application with a twist ... You can create a full Rails application using less code than the setup XML you only need to configure some other frameworks. With this book you will learn how to use Rails Active Record to connect business objects and database tables. See how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, talk to web services, and interact dynamically with JavaScript applications running in the browser (the "Ajax" architecture). You will see how easy it is to deploy Rails.