Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide

Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, Andreas Schwarz

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The first comprehensive guide to building web applications with the Ruby on Rails framework, co-authored by Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. It walks readers through Rails conventions, the MVC architecture, ActiveRecord, and building a sample e-commerce application step by step. Published by the Pragmatic Bookshelf, it served as the definitive introductory text for early Rails developers.