This is the first edition of the Rails book. The second edition is now available.

A new approach to web development:

develop sophisticated web applications quickly and easily; use incremental and iterative development to create the web apps that users want; and get to go home on time.

Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition
Code • Errata
558 pages, Aug 2005
ISBN: 978-0-9766940-0-7

About this Book

  • develop sophisticated web applications quickly and easily;
  • use incremental and iterative development to create the web apps that users want; and
  • get to go home on time.

Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist

About the Author

As one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, Dave Thomas understands agility. As the author of Programming Ruby, he understands Ruby and how to describe writing Ruby applications. David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of the Rails framework. Leon Breedt wrote the web services component of Rails. Mike Clark is an international expert on testing techniques. Thomas Fuchs contributed much of the AJAX support for Rails. Andreas Schwarz wrote the online manual on security for Rails. The authors know Ruby, and we know Rails.