Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professionalis the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Rails, the stacked web framework taking the world by storm. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. You#151;ll take advantage of the latest crop of Rails plug-ins and helpers that will radically improve your programming schedule. You#151;ll also create a real application step-by-step, plus the book is driven by real-world cases throughout. You will begin by learning how to install Rails and quickly create a product catalog interfaced with your choice of database technologies. Then you#151;ll discover how to build modern, Ajax-powered shopping carts and add useful features like customer feedback modules. Next you#151;ll learn how to integrate your application with open source packages like the Ferret full-text search engine, and how to interface with back-end electronic payment systems. You#151;ll also learn how to make your application work flawlessly with existing production systems using web services, and then ultimately deploy and tune your application for production use. | Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce by Jarkko Laine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters