JRuby makes it easy to do so.
There are more reasons to consider JRuby on Rails, and I??™ll touch on most of them in several
places in the book.
Overview of the Book
This book is divided into four different parts, with some information before and after, and
three appendixes. To help you get a feeling for how the book is laid out, I??™ll give a quick introduction
to each chapter here. If you need specific information about a subject, please feel free
to jump around. Keep in mind that most chapters use an overarching project for that part,
which means that in some cases important context can be found in preceding chapters.
The four project parts are relatively separate from each other, but they each depend on
things you learned in earlier chapters.
Chapter 1: Introduction
This is the introduction to the book, giving you information about the technologies covered,
why they should interest you, and an overview of the book. You should be reading it right now.
Chapter 2: Getting Started
This chapter is aimed at getting you up to speed by helping you to install everything you need
for the rest of the book, including all RubyGems you??™ll be using. The chapter also gives a small
introduction to each of them, and tells you how to do basic tasks with the gem command.
Project 1: The Store (Shoplet)
The store application is the first Rails project you create, and as such won??™t differ much from
what you would have done if you were developing the application with MRI.
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