Table of Contents

+-- {: #intro} Welcome to the Merb Open Source Book. The purpose of this book is simple: to guide beginners and advanced users through the Merb Framework.

In all honesty, this book won't answer all of your questions about Merb or Ruby, let alone cover all of the use cases. However, with the help of the Ruby Community, we will be able to cover most of what you need to use Merb on a daily basis.

If you are learning through this material, or if you already use Merb frequently, please consider helping improve the content of this book. =--

1. Front Matter
2. Foreword By Yehuda Katz
3. Preface by Matt Aimonetti
4. Contributors
5. Introduction
6. Ruby Language
7. Merb Web Framework
8. DataMapper ORM
9. RSpec testing framework
10. Getting Started
11. Install Instructions
12. Generate an application
13. Project structure
14. MVC
15. Controllers
16. Views
17. Models
18. Request path
19. Router
20. Interacting with the database (DataMapper)
21. Setting up the database connection
22. Database Schema
23. Database Queries
24. Model Relationships
25. Database Migrations
26. Model Validations
27. Interacting with the database (Active Record)
28. Installation and setup
29. Database Queries
30. Interacting with the database (Sequel)
31. Getting Started
32. Database Migrations
33. Data Retrieval and Manipulation
34. Model Associations
35. Model Validation
36. Sequel Plugins
    
37. Testing your application
38. Why test
39. Testing your models
40. Testing your requests
41. Integration testing with Cucumber
42. Merb More
43. Authentication
44. Mailer
45. Caching
46. Exceptions
47. Slices
48. Recipes
49. Simple Blog
50. Building a Blog Slice
51. Deployment
52. Passenger
53. nginx
54. JRuby and Glassfish
55. Bundling your Merb application

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• Appendix
  1. Hints/Tips
  2. Available Slices
  3. Useful Gems

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