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| Manning Early Access Program |
Merb in Action Michael Ivey, Yehuda Katz, and Ezra Zygmuntowicz MEAP Release: June 2008 Softbound print: April 2009 (est.) | 425 pages ISBN: 1933988703 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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Part 1: Understanding Merb
1: Introducing Merb - FREE 2: Getting Started With Merb - AVAILABLE 3: Using Merb with a Database 4: Testing Merb Applications 5: More Merb Coolness 6: Deploying Merb |
Part 2: Hacking Merb
7: Core: Boot, initialization and extensions 8: Core: Request, Router, and Dispatcher 9: Core: Controllers and Rendering 10: More: Template Engines 11: More: Assets, Caching and Mailers 12: More: Parts and Slices 13: Plugins: ORM Plugin internals |
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DESCRIPTION
Mix the elegance of Ruby, the power and speed of a well-designed, lightweight MVC framework, and more than a little creative genius (Thanks Ezra!), and you get Merb. Merb is a new web application framework designed from the ground up to be fast and flexible.
Merb is all about speed—faster applications, shorter development cycles, and easier deployment. It works with virtually any ORM, JavaScript library, or template language, and provides a tight central base that can be extended easily through plugins.
Merb in Action brings Merb to life, providing a concise tutorial packed with useful examples that will have you developing effectively with Merb in no time. In part I, you'll start with a quick tour of Merb's core model and functionality. Following a series of straightforward examples, you'll apply Merb to common web development tasks—forms, data access, talking to servers, and so forth
Then, you'll move into part II, a "motorcycle manual" for Merb, where you'll dive deep into the internals. You'll learn to write plugins and make use of the modular nature of Merb.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Master Merb's built-in features
- Take advantage of third-party support packages for ActiveRecord, DataMapper, and Sequel ORMs.
- Extend Merb by building your own RubyGems-based plugins
- Add application features using JavaScript libraries like jQuery
- Integrate Merb with existing applications
This book assumes a basic knowledge of the Ruby language and web development, but you'll be able to keep up even if you've never used Merb.
About the Authors
Michael Ivey is a principal at Ivey and Brown, a consultancy that specializes in agile software development using Ruby, Merb, and Ruby on Rails. Michael was formerly on the Merb team at Engine Yard.
Yehuda Katz works on Merb for Engine Yard. He also heads up the jQuery plugin development team and runs Visual jQuery, a dynamic, browsable version of the jQuery API.
Ezre Zygmuntowicz is the man behind Merb. He is a founder and lead architect at Engine Yard, a fully managed Rails hosting solution that prides itself on reliability, scalabilty, and redundancy.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Merb in Action enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Forum
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