Professional Ruby on Rails -- About the Author -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who Should Read This Book -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Chapter 1: Building Resources -- A Good Place to Start -- A Recipe for Recipes -- The REST of the Story -- Building Your First Resources -- Building Ingredients -- Building a Recipe Editor -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Rails Source Control with Subversion -- Subversive Control -- Creating a Repository -- Populating the New Repository -- The Repository Life Cycle -- Setting Up a Subversion Server with svnserve -- Living on the Edge -- What's Up, RDoc? -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Adding Users -- Creating Users -- User Creation Form -- Refactoring Forms Using A FormBuilder -- Storing Encrypted Passwords -- Authentication -- Bot Protection via Authorization Email -- CAPTCHA -- Sessions and Cookies -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Build Tools and Automation -- What Rake Can Do for You -- What You Can Do for Rake -- Continuous Integration -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Navigation and Social Networking -- Menus and Sidebars -- Tagging -- Searching -- Pagination -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 6: The Care and Feeding of Databases -- Plugging In to Your Legacy -- Naming Unconventionally -- Testing a Legacy Database with Fixtures -- Building a Relationship across Multiple Databases -- Why Be Normal? -- Polymorphic Associations -- Database Refresher -- Using Transactions -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Testing Tools -- Test Driven -- Covering It All -- Mock Testing -- Behavior-Driven Design -- How to Get RSpec-Like Features -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Rails-Driven JavaScript -- Revisiting the Past -- Easy JavaScript Integration.

Writing JavaScript in Ruby -- Cross-Site Scripting Security -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Talking to the Web -- ActiveResource -- Producing Web Service Data -- Consuming Web Services -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Internationalizing Your Application -- Does Anybody Really Care About Time? -- Internationalization with Globalize -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 11: The Graphic Arts -- Getting Started -- Uploading Files to Rails -- Using Your Graphics Library -- Charts -- Resources -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Deploying Your Application -- Capistrano -- Mongrel -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Performance -- Measurement -- Fixing Performance Problems -- Caching -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Going Meta -- Eval and Bindings -- Introspection Tools -- Classes, Metaclasses, and Singletons -- Monkey Patching and Duck Punching -- The Case of the Missing Method -- Defining Methods Dynamically -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Extending Rails with Plugins -- Using Plugins -- Creating a Plugin -- Writing a Generator -- Writing the Plugin -- Distributing Plugins -- References -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Replacing Ruby Tools -- ERB Replacements -- JRuby on JRails -- References -- Summary -- Appendix A: Things You Should Download -- Platform Notes -- Ruby -- Rails -- Subversion -- Databases -- Mongrel -- Choosing a Text Editor -- One-Stop Shopping -- Appendix B: Web Frameworks Inspired by Rails -- CakePHP -- Camping -- Django -- Grails -- Merb -- TurboGears -- Index.