Preface
1. Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails
Rails Strengths
Putting Rails into Action
Organization
The Web Server
Creating a Controller
Building a View
Tying the Controller to the View
Under the Hood
What's Next?
2. Active Record Basics
Active Record Basics
Introducing Photo Share
Schema Migrations
Basic Active Record Classes
Attributes
Complex Classes
Behavior
Moving Forward
3. Active Record Relationships
belongs_to
has_many
has_one
What You Haven't Seen
Looking Ahead
4. Scaffolding
Using the Scaffold Method
Replacing Scaffolding
Generating Scaffolding Code
Moving Forward
5. Extending Views
The Big Picture
Seeing Real Photos
View Templates
Setting the Default Root
Stylesheets
Hierarchical Categories
Styling the Slideshows
6. Ajax
How Rails Implements Ajax
Playing a Slideshow
Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides
Drag and Drop Everything (Almost Everything)
Filtering by Category
7. Testing
Background
Ruby's Test: :Unit
Testing in Rails
Wrapping Up
A. Installing Rails
B. Quick Reference
Index