Expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what is most important: to provide business value. Pioneering Rails developer Obie Fernandez and a team of experts illuminate the entire Rails API, along with the Ruby idioms, design approaches, libraries, and plug-ins that make Rails so valuable. Using detailed code examples, Obie systematically covers Rails? This book will help you Increase your productivity as a web developer Realize the overall joy of programming with Ruby on Rails Learn what's new in Rails 2.0? Drive design and protect long-term maintainability with TestUnit and RSpec Understand and manage complex program flow in Rails controllers Leverage Rails? support for designing REST-compliant APIs Master sophisticated Rails routing concepts and techniques Examine and troubleshoot Rails routing Take advantage of ActiveRecord object-relational mapping Utilize Ajax within your Rails application Enter the login and authentication to your application Extend Rails with the best third party plug-ins and write their own Integrate email services into your applications with ActionMailer Choose the right Rails production configurations Streamline deployment with Capistrano