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1 Contents Preface... V Motivation for this Book... V Who Should Read this Book?...VI Outline to the Book Structure... VII Prerequisite Skills... VIII Acknowledgements... VIII About the Author... VIII Contents... XI 1 Ruby Introduction Installing Ruby Creating a Ruby Application Identifiers and Comments Strings Arrays Hashes and Ranges Variables Constants and Operators Classes Methods Procs and Blocks Control Structures and Iterators Exception Handling Modules Comparing Ruby with PHP Comparing Ruby with Java Summary Rails Framework Introduction Overview of Rails Active Record Action Controller...47

2 XII Contents 2.5 Action View Sub-Templates Ruby on Rails Commands Installing Rails Developing a Rails Application Rails Routes Stylesheets Helpers Layouts Partials Rails Framework Examples Configuring Rails with the MySQL Database Comparing Rails with PHP Comparing Rails with Java Summary CRUD on Rails Introduction Scaffolding CRUD with PHP CRUD with Java Creating a Rails Application Creating a Database Table Migrations Creating catalogs Table with Migrations Configuring with Oracle Database Configuring with SQL Server 2005 Database Developing a CRUD Application Creating Dynamic Scaffolding Creating Scaffolding with Scaffold Generator Ajax Scaffolding Validations Summary Ajax on Rails Introduction Overview of Ajax Overview of XMLHttpRequest Creating an XMLHttpRequest Object Opening an HTTP Request Sending an HTTP Request Processing an HTTP Response

3 Ruby on Rails for PHP and Java Developers XIII 4.8 Ajax with PHP Ajax with Java Support for Ajax in Rails link_to_remote form_remote_tag submit_to_remote observe_field observe_form periodically_call_remote update_element_function update_page Creating a Ruby on Rails Application Creating a Database Table Sending a Request Sending a Request with form_remote_tag Method Sending a Request with observe_field Method Processing a Request Processing the Response Summary Creating PDF and Excel Reports Introduction Creating a PDF with PHP Creating a PDF with Java Creating a PDF File with Ruby on Rails Creating a Table in PDF Creating a Spreadsheet with PHP Creating a Spreadsheet with Java Creating an Excel Spreadsheet with Ruby on Rails Creating a Spreadsheet with Ruby Spreadsheet Summary XML On Rails Introduction Processing XML with PHP Processing XML with Java Installing XML Builder Creating an XML Document with Ruby on Rails Creating an XML Document from a Database Parsing an XML Document with REXML Summary...189

4 XIV Contents 7 PHP On Rails Introduction Installing PHP Installing PHPOnTrax Creating a Trax Application Creating a CRUD Application Summary LDAP On Rails Introduction Installing OpenLDAP Installing Tivoli Directory Server Installing Oracle Internet Directory LDAP with PHP LDAP with Java Installing NET::LDAP Creating a Rails Application Creating a Directory Entry Modifying a Directory Entry Searching a Directory Deleting a Directory Entry Summary Web Services On Rails Introduction Web Services with PHP Web Services with Java Creating a Web Service with Ruby on Rails Web Service API Class Dispatching Direct Dispatching Delegated Dispatching Layered Dispatching Protocol Clients Summary Ruby on Rails in Eclipse Introduction PHP in Eclipse Installing RDT Creating a Rails Project in RDT Creating a Database Table with RDT

5 Ruby on Rails for PHP and Java Developers XV 10.6 Creating a CRUD Application with RDT Installing RadRails Creating a Rails Application with RadRails Creating a CRUD Application with RadRails Summary Rails Testing and Fixtures Introduction Unit Testing in PHP and Java Rails Example Test Assertion Types Rails Testing Fixtures Unit Testing Testing Controllers Summary Rails in Production Introduction Setting the Production Mode Rails Best Practices and Performance Deployment on Apache2 and FastCGI Rails Web Hosting Summary Sources of Information Index...391

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