Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 448 pages
• Published by: Apress July 4, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1590597362
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590597361
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Description


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. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. Youll take advantage of the latest crop of Rails plug-ins and helpers that will radically improve your programming schedule. Youll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by real-world cases throughout.

You will begin by learning how to install Rails and quickly create a product catalog interfaced with your choice of database technologies. Then youll discover how to build modern, Ajax-powered shopping carts and add useful features like customer feedback modules. Next youll learn how to integrate your application with open source packages like the Ferret full-text search engine, and how to interface with back-end electronic payment systems. Youll also learn how to make your application work flawlessly with existing production systems using web services, and then ultimately deploy and tune your application for production use.

About The Author
Christian Hellsten is the founder of Aktagon Ltd., a provider of consulting services and custom Internet software development, and CTO of Sanda Interactive Ltd. He has worked on large-scale e-business projects as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and IBM Business Consulting Services. Christian's background is in J2EE, but he fell in love with Ruby on Rails at first sight, and has been using it professionally ever since to build web applications. When he is not changing the diapers of his two young daughters at his home in Finland, Christian enjoys researching new and better ways of building software.

Jarkko Laine is the owner and CEO of O'Design, a Rails-based web design shop. He has been using Ruby on Rails since 2004 and has contributed patches to the core developer team, as well as contributing to several Rails plug-ins. He has provided Rails consultancy for a number of high-profile organizations, including a major mobile phone manufacturer, Starnet Systems, and Reforge Oy. He has also taught Rails at the university level and delivers lectures about Rails around the world. He lives in Tampere, Finland, with his girlfriend Maria and a growing list of pending household chores. For more information about the book, please visit www.railsecommerce.com.

Reader Reviews
It's too bad this wonderfully written book is so full of errors. Did the authors run out of time to check the sample code? I spent days and days trying to get the sample code given in the book to work. The book version of the code didn't match the downloaded version and both were loaded with errors. After chapter four I gave it up as a lost cause. My list of errata was so extensive that I didn't bother to send it to the publisher because I had invested far too much time in the book already. I'm guessing the rave revues this book received were from readers that simply read the book and didn't try the sample application code.