www.it-ebooks.info THE RAILS WAY www.it-ebooks.info Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series Obie Fernandez, Series Editor The Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series provides readers with practical, people-oriented, and in-depth information about applying the Ruby platform to create dynamic technology solutions The series is based on the premise that the need for expert reference books, written by experienced practitioners, will never be satisfied solely by blogs and the Internet Books currently in the series The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition Hal Fulton, ISBN 13: 9780672328848, ©2007 RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails™ Michael Hartl & Aurelius Prochazka, ISBN 13: 9780321480798, ©2008 The Rails Way Obie Fernandez, ISBN 13: 9780321445612, ©2008 Design Patterns in Ruby Russ Olsen, ISBN 13: 9780321490452, ©2008 Short Cuts Rails Routing David A Black 0321509242 â2007 Rails Refactoring to Resources: Using CRUD and REST 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SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES, OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE. .. routes.rb File 63 The Default Route 65 Spotlight on the :id Field 66 Default Route Generation 67 Modifying the Default Route 68 The Ante-Default Route and respond_to 69 respond_to and the HTTP-Accept