Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Railsthe stacked web framework taking the world by storm. Youll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by cases in the real world. You'll start by learning how to install Rails and quickly create a catalog of products associated with your choice of database technology. Youll also learn how to make your application works perfectly with the existing production systems using web services, and then finally deploy and tune your application for production use.