RailsSpace

List of figures xvii Acknowledgments xxi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Why Rails? 1 1.2 Why this book? 3 1.3 Who should read this book? 4 1.4 A couple of Rails stories 5 Part I Foundations 11 Chapter 2 Getting Started 13 2.1 Preliminaries 13 2.2 Our first pages 20 2.3 Rails views 26 2.4 Layouts 28 2.5 Developing with style 38 Chapter 3 Modeling users 43 3.1 Creating the User model 43 3.2 User model validations 51 3.3 Further steps to ensure data integrity (?) 63 Chapter 4 Registering users 65 4.1 A User controller 65 4.2 User registration: The view 66 4.3 User registration: The action 77 4.4 Linking in Registration 90 4.5 An example user 95 Chapter 5 Getting started with testing 97 5.1 Our testing philosophy 98 5.2 Test database configuration 98 5.3 Site controller testing 99 5.4 Registration testing 103 5.5 Basic User model testing 111 5.6 Detailed User model testing 115 Chapter 6 Logging in and out 131 6.1 Maintaining state with sessions 131 6.2 Logging in 134 6.3 Logging out 146 6.4 Protecting pages 150 6.5 Friendly URL forwarding 156 6.6 Refactoring basic login 164 Chapter 7 Advanced login 181 7.1 So you say you want to be remembered? 181 7.2 Actually remembering the user 192 7.3 "Remember me" tests 203 7.4 Advanced tests: Integration testing 209 7.5 Refactoring redux 215 Chapter 8 Updating user information 225 8.1 A non-stub hub 226 8.2 Updating the email address 226 8.3 Updating password 229 8.4 Testing user edits 237 8.5 Partials 245 Part II Building a social network 253 Chapter 9 Personal profiles 255 9.1 A user profile stub 256 9.2 User specs 260 9.3 Editing the user specs 266 9.4 Updating the user hub 277 9.5 Personal FAQ: Interests and personality 288 9.6 Public-facing profile 299 Chapter 10 Community 303 10.1 Building a community (controller) 303 10.2 Setting up sample users 304 10.3 The community index 308 10.4 Polishing results 320 Chapter 11 Searching and browsing 327 11.1 Searching 327 11.1.1 Search views 328 11.1.2 Ferret 330 11.2 Testing search 341

Michael Hartl is a programmer and entrepreneur. Before discovering Rails, he used Zope/Python in a startup he cofounded to produce fantasy sports websites, including BracketManager, at the time the number one independent NCAA Basketball Tournament website. Previously, he was a physics instructor at the California Institute of Technology, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also served as Caltech's editor for The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition (Addison-Wesley). He is a graduate of Harvard College and has a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech. Aurelius Prochazka is a pioneer of interactive, user-driven websites and has founded several companies, including Creative Internet Design, Inc., and ArsDigita Corporation. After working extensively with many operating systems and web frameworks, he happily calls Macintosh OS X and Ruby on Rails his preferred programming environments. Aurelius is the principal developer of Caltech's main website, as well as its admissions and alumni sites. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has a Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics from Caltech.