Folks:
The fifth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad F.'s book on writing
real-world Rails, is now available.
The book now has its full quota for 70 recipes. Here’s the
complete list.
Part I–User Interface Recipes
In-Place Form Editing
Making Your Own JavaScript Helper
Live Preview
Live Search
Creating a Drag-and-Drop Sortable List (extract)
Update Multiple Page Elements With One Ajax Request
Lightning-Fast JavaScript Auto-completion
Cheap and Easy Theme Support
Use Ajax To Trim Fat, Static Pages
Smart Pluralization
Debugging Ajax
Creating a Custom Form Builder
Make Pretty Graphs
Part II–Database Recipes
Rails Without A Database (extract)
Connecting to Multiple Databases
Integrating with Legacy Databases
DRY Up Your Database Configuration
Self-referential Many-to-Many Relationships
Tagging (extract)
Versioning Your ActiveRecord Models
Convert an Existing Application to Migrations
Many to Many Relationships Where the Relationship Itself Has Data
Polymorphic Associations - has_many :whatevers
Adding Behavior to Your ActiveRecord Associations
Dynamic Database Config
Use ActiveRecord Outside of Rails
Per form Calculations on Your Model Data
DRY Up Your ActiveRecord Code With Scoping
Make Dumb Data Smart with composed_of
Safely Use Models in Migrations
Part III–Controller Recipes
Authentication
Role-Based Authorization
Cleaning Up Controllers with Postback Actions
Keep An Eye On Your Session Expiry
Rendering Comma Separated Values From Your Actions
Make your URLs Meaningful (and pretty)
Stub Out Authentication
Convert Your Sessions To ActiveRecord
Write Code That Writes Code
Manage a Static Site With Rails
Part IV–Testing Recipes
Creating Dynamic Test Fixtures
Extracting Test Fixtures From Live Data
Testing Across Multiple Controllers
Write Tests for Your Helpers
Part VBig Picture Recipes
Automating Development With Your Own Generators
Continuous Integration
Getting Notified of Unhandled Exceptions
Creating Your Own Rake Tasks
Dealing With Time-zones
Living On The Edge (of Rails Development)
Syndicate Your Site With RSS
Making Your Own Rails Plugins
Secret URLs
Quickly Inspect Your Sessions!C Contents
Sharing Models Between Your Applications
Generate Documentation For Your Application
Processing Uploaded Images
Easily Group Lists of Things
Keeping Track of Who Did What
Distributing Your Application As One Directory Tree
Adding Support for Localization
The Console Is Your Friend
Automatically Save a Draft of a Form
Validating Non-ActiveRecord Objects
Easy HTML Whitelists
Adding Simple Web Services To Your Actions
Part VI–E-Mail Recipes
Send Gracefully Degrading Rich-Content Emails
Testing Incoming Email
Sending Email With Attachments
Handling Bounced Email
Cheers
Dave